From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 08:27:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AFB716A4CE; Mon, 17 May 2004 08:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3639C43D39; Mon, 17 May 2004 08:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4HFRfMH003262; Mon, 17 May 2004 17:27:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Jim Rees From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 May 2004 12:54:28 EDT." <20040516165428.78A602080B@citi.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:27:41 +0200 Message-ID: <3261.1084807661@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/enigma enigma.1 X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 15:27:46 -0000 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.