Rotor in Jython?

[Paul Rubin]

<brueckd at tbye.com> writes:
> But the sorry history of rotors has nothing to do with rotor strength and
> everything to do with short/obvious keys, the obvious starting text of the
> messages (e.g. "No news to report"), and the limitations of mechanical
> implementations. You can *always* make a rotor stronger by increasing the
> length of the key - and at no additional computational cost.

That's erroneous--if you count the rotor and plugboard permutations,
the WW2 Enigma machines had a very large key space (maybe larger than
56-bit DES) but they were cryptanalyzed with fairly crude
electromechanical devices (the "Bombe" was basically 6 Enigmas wired
together).