Does rotor follow a cross-language encryption algorithm ?

David Glasser news at davidglasser.net
Sun Nov 25 20:47:36 EST 2001


Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> I believe the algorithm used is cryptographically weak. As the
> comments suggest, the algorithm is the one used by the German Enigma
> machine from WWII. For those, a team lead by Alan Turing eventually
> implemented computing hardware that would break the new codes every
> day.

I wonder if it's legal to download Python in France... after all, it
comes with NAZI ENCRYPTION SOFTWARE!

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David Glasser
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