ANN: obfuscate

[Gregory Ewing]

Christian Heimes wrote:
> A much, much stronger version of the
> principles behind Vigenère was used in the German Enigma machine.
> Because the algorithm was still not good enought some clever guy called
> Turing and his team was able to crack the enigma.

Actually I gather it had a lot to do with the fact that
the Germans made some blunders in the way they used the
Enigma that seriously compromised its security. There
was reportedly a branch of the German forces that used
their Enigmas differently, avoiding those mistakes, and
the British never managed to crack any of their messages.

-- 
Greg