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Genre: Science & Technology
Date of upload: Jun 9, 2014 ^^
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At 24:40 I think the real bulb test question is: Can all bulbs be lit simultaneously (or sequentially) to see if any are burned out? Otherwise, if a keypress resulted in no light -- how do you know which letter was supposed to be lit?
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While the calculation of the amount of 'cyphering' provided by the plug board is beyond me, it seems that that its "pick 10 pairs from 26 letters" provides the largest term in calculating the astronomical number of possible settings of the device. It's a shame that, apart from a "cameo mention", the plug board (and its clever socket designs) doesn't get a look-in... ever...
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An entertaining video, but at only 15 minutes in I find two major errors. Although the American M-209 machine was broken by the Germans, it was only under very specific circumstances in which US operators did not follow protocol and in practice hardly any messages were decoded by the enemy. The US told battlefield commanders that messages on the M-209 could be decoded in a couple of hours to keep them from using it for high level traffic, worried that it could be broken. In the end, more enigma messages, by orders of magnitude were broken than the M-209, granted that was because the allies tried harder, but the strength of the enigma and the m-209 were about the same.
Checking on the Haglin back door for the NSA. Poppycock. By the 50s the NSA, with high speed computers, could break Haglin’s technology given enough traffic to look at. The secret was that they could do it, and they did tell anyone. Did Crypto AG know? I doubt it but maybe. The point is there is/was no designed in back door. The devices are mechanical and no more difficult to understand than the enigma. A back door would be impossible to hide.
Facts matter. Respectfully, Charlie
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37:35 After 12 years of working flawlessly, the machine suddenly does not work anymore at a demonstration ... Very typical. ("It worked this morning, believe me")
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@kharyrobertson3579
9 years ago
I love how he points out the NSA connection. Those are the tidbits that make these talks fun.
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