Christie's auction and other computer history events

Paul Koning pkoning at equallogic.com
Mon Feb 21 09:08:19 CST 2005


 >> Neither is speaking of "the Enigma" as if it were a single
 >> thing. :-)

Enigma is a single thing just as PDP-11 is a single thing -- in both
cases, a family of designs where the key architecture is fixed across
all models.

The biggest delta, as I recall, was that one variant had four rotors
instead of three, and even that doesn't affect the fundamentals of the
cryptanalysis.

	paul




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