Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 04:28:46 +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: <1324.1084674526@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 2004 15:30:07 EDT." <20040514193008.503382081E@citi.umich.edu>
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In message <20040514193008.503382081E@citi.umich.edu>, Jim Rees writes: > You may want to amend it into the 21st century regarding what the > alternatives are for "real" encryption -- perhaps replace all of the > mentioned alternatives with openssl(1), or just replace bdes(1)... > >You might also want to clarify that the encryption is a simple single rotor, >not the more difficult (but still unsafe) German military Enigma. You're pretty wrong about it being unsafe. Enigma as such is actually safe, it was mainly the way it was used and the amount of systematic trafic that made it unsafe for the germans. It is of course not a very strong crypto by todays standards, but still very safe all in all. I would propose that the enigma(1) man page contain the URL of the bletchly park trust. -- 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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