25 Apr
2007
25 Apr
'07
1:02 p.m.
For that
matter, was enough publicly known about the Enigma at the
time to do that then?
I thought that Unix (1969) was developed well after WW2.
After WW2, the Enigma was well understood, and was no
longer an
enigma.
Not an enigma to the cryptographers who worked on breaking it, no. But
my understanding was that only recently was much of that data
declassified. Note that I said *publicly* known....
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