AFAIK the efforts of breaking the Enigma cypher are at the origin of the "Von Neumann architecture" concept and led to the birth of the computer as we know it today.
On 19-Aug-2002 arachne-digest wrote: > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:17:24 -0500 > From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: ENIGMA <snip> >Polystepped substitution is better. > >Wherrqihbpc xhliryrtrskh jm yzbald. Hey, aren't the spaces supposed to be encoded, too? Why not the whole ASCII table? 2^21 combinations is not so bad after all:-) -- Cristian Burneci (Mainly dealing with Harvard architecture based gismos today)
