Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:27:41 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/enigma enigma.1 Message-ID: <3261.1084807661@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 May 2004 12:54:28 EDT." <20040516165428.78A602080B@citi.umich.edu>
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In message <20040516165428.78A602080B@citi.umich.edu>, Jim Rees writes: > You're pretty wrong about it being unsafe. > >It's unsafe unless used correctly. So I guess we're in agreement. But how >useful is a cipher that has to be re-keyed every 200 characters? And how >likely is it to be used correctly? My kids have had a blast out of the CD-turned 1-rotor-Enigma I bought for them at Bletchley park, and we should never get so serious that we forget that fun things doesn't have to be perfect. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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