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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: Why doesn't Sun provide the Crypt program in their OS?
- Message-ID: <bontchev.727979130@fbihh>
- Keywords: crypt
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 16:25:30 GMT
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- tschach@math.fu-berlin.de (Carsten Tschach) writes:
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- > Try to get 'enigma' from one of the ftp-servers. It's crypt compatible.
-
- No, it is not. The most that can be said is that crypt(1) uses an
- "Enigma-like" cypher. Actually, it implements a one-rotor, 256-letter
- no-reflector version of Enigma. The Unix crypt(1) certainly CANNOT be
- used to read and write messages, understandable by the -real- Enigma.
- (The real Enigma had three or four 26-letter rotors and a reflector.)
- BTW, the program "enigma.c" than can be found with archie does not
- create Enigma-compatible messages either. It is an "improved" version
- of the Enigma cypher. I doubt that the improvements have made it more
- secure, but they for sure have made it incompatible...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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