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Cracking Enigma in 2021 - Computerphile

Dr Mike Pound of Computerphile shows how a modern laptop can crack Enigma, using a ciphertext-only attack based on an older paper. He compares it with the tooling in CrypTool.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a good starting point on practical Enigma cryptanalysis with modern hardware.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Computerphile
Topic
enigma cryptanalysis
Format
explainer
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2021–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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  • I would think that the recent computerphile video "Cracking Enigma In 2021" would be a good place to start. [VIDEO]

    whiskeytuesday on Hacker News · 2021-09
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  • Super interesting, thanks! This is also a good companion video -- [VIDEO] -- about the feasibility of cracking Enigma "in 2021" i.e. using computational power available to us today. TLDW & AFAIK: it's crackable (just as it was back then, using a bag of approaches …

    gregsadetsky on Hacker News · 2022-04
    In How did the Enigma Machine work? (2021) [video]

  • AFAIK the Germans kept improving both the Enigma itself and the procedures for using it. For example there was some specific weakness that the Polish attacks used, but at some point Germans figured it out and "patched" it. By the end of the war they …

    H8crilA on Hacker News · 2024-05
    In Interview with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack Enigma (1974) [video]

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