FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR ONELIST'S CIPHER CHALLENGE GROUP This version (March 2000) contains answers to the following questions: 1) Where can I get an...
CipherChallenge@yahoo...
Feb 1, 2001 12:08 pm
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR ONELIST'S CIPHER CHALLENGE GROUP This version (March 2000) contains answers to the following questions: 1) Where can I get an...
CipherChallenge@yahoo...
Feb 1, 2001 12:08 pm
5224
Finnally sorted s6 over the weekend though my key square was slighly odd! Anyway onto stage 7 . Could John McLaughlin contact me privatley if possible. I would...
Simon Kilby
skukok@...
Feb 6, 2001 8:16 pm
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Simon has just WORD on his computer with which to do S7. I wonder if anyone has good enough knowledge of WORD and Visual Basic Macros (and WORD Tables??) to...
selby.milner@...
Feb 7, 2001 6:54 am
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Mark your mail address errored on me when i tried to contact you the answer is yes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo!...
Simon Kilby
skukok@...
Feb 7, 2001 12:11 pm
5227
Visual Basic is a very powerful language, much more powerful than its name implies. It can certainly do everything necessary to solve Stages 6, 7 and 8. One of...
Dave Smith
dlsmith@...
Feb 7, 2001 3:11 pm
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O'Reilly has a good book on word programming, called "Learning Word Programming". (www.oreilly.com). Also look at Mastering VBA 6 by Sybex, and the Special...
Gary L Saunders
garysaunders@...
Feb 7, 2001 3:50 pm
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Group, Thanks to everyone. Yes Dave I have word version 2000 so will look into vbasic. At least i can abandon my current attempts at hill climbing by hand. ...
Simon Kilby
skukok@...
Feb 7, 2001 6:51 pm
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It can be done with a table in Word. Without giving away how it's done, all of my initial work on S7 was done in Word. Once it has been placed in the table as...
lobert@...
Feb 8, 2001 2:02 am
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Both Singh and Budiansky relate the story of Hans-Thilo Schmidt, the German officer who sold the pre-war Enigma keys to the French. The story has many...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Feb 8, 2001 2:37 am
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Richard, An interesting question. It seems highly improbable that the Germans did not know that Schmidt had passed secrets of Enigma to the French, and ...
David Sutton
davidsutton@...
Feb 8, 2001 7:05 am
5233
I have seen several references to Jim's paper on Stage 8/Enigma and found a URL (which does not work). Could anyone say where it can now be found please? Is...
selby.milner@...
Feb 8, 2001 7:43 am
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http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/coding/379/gillog1.htm SImon ps. it worked this morning ... __________________________________________________ Do You...
Simon Kilby
skukok@...
Feb 8, 2001 11:48 am
5235
The germans must have thought that at least one machiene would be captured in war, the strengh of a cipher should depend on the number of keys. Anyway the ...
Simon Kilby
skukok@...
Feb 8, 2001 7:09 pm
5236
So: - Enigma was state-of-the-art, nothing better was available at the time - Retooling in the middle of war would have been costly and difficult to impossible...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Feb 8, 2001 8:59 pm
5237
... I think some of this is oversimplifying. Taking them in order: First, although Enigma was s-o-t-a for the beginning of war (the invasion of Poland, say),...
Jim Gillogly
jim@...
Feb 8, 2001 9:29 pm
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Hans Tilo-Schmidt (code name Bertrand) was a nazi officer considered as a model. His brother was commanding a panzer division in 1940. He was a very precious...
Didier HALLÉPÉE
dhallepee@...
Feb 8, 2001 10:08 pm
5239
We also know from German communiques that since they were reading British codes on a daily real-time basis, they assumed that anyone that stupid couldn't...
lobert@...
Feb 9, 2001 3:57 am
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<< I think some of this is oversimplifying.>> Of course it is. Can't try to fit a dozen years of history into half a dozen lines. But nations underestimate...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Feb 9, 2001 5:16 am
5241
The story becomes progressively more interesting. Didier, I do not think it is generally known outside of France that Gamelin chose to ignore Schmidt's...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Feb 9, 2001 5:16 am
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One last comment from me which I had intended to add yesterday. One of the chief reasons that the Germans decided that Enigma had not been compromised was the...
David Sutton
davidsutton@...
Feb 9, 2001 7:06 am
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Maybe it was simply a matter of bureaucratic cognitive dissonance. The Gestapo would typically have been howling for blood after Schmidt's arrest, rolling up...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Feb 9, 2001 7:23 am
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The spotter-plane example has been cited numerous times, but it is only a partial explanation. Yes, the spotter plane would give the Germans an explanation of...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Feb 9, 2001 7:39 am
5245
... His code name was HE also written Asche from the French pronunciation of HE. Bertrand (Gustave Bertrand) was the French intelligence officer who was ...
Frode Weierud
Frode.Weierud@...
Feb 9, 2001 10:46 am
5246
... The German cryptographers had a lot of nice surprises in their box of tricks which would surely have stopped the Allied cryptanalytical success with...
Frode Weierud
Frode.Weierud@...
Feb 9, 2001 11:27 am
5247
... From: Amazon.com <book-news@...> To: <alexandra.dixon@...> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:01 PM Subject: "Crypto: How the Code Rebels...
alexandra.dixon@...
Feb 10, 2001 2:29 am
5248
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:46:31 +0100 (MET) From: Frode Weierud <Frode.Weierud@...> Subject: Re: Re: : Enigma - history ... His code name was HE...
Didier HALLÉPÉE
dhallepee@...
Feb 10, 2001 2:36 pm
5249
... Hi Didier, Gustave Bertand's book "Enigma ou la plus grande enigme de la guerre 1939-1945", Librairie Plon, 1973 gives details about his involvment with ...
Frode Weierud
Frode.Weierud@...
Feb 10, 2001 7:15 pm
5250
Frode, thank you for the additional historical background. The fact that the Germans had these much more powerful follow-ons to Enigma is indeed frightening,...
Richard Kaplan
kaplan@...
Feb 10, 2001 7:40 pm
5251
Does anybody know where I can get an ASCII text file of English words? I don't need definitions, just the words themselves. Thanks, Alexandra...
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