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Re:Barbie typewriter (2015) by kitd on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:47AM (#17540499)
It's a little like Enigma, except that the substitution is static, not changing on each key press.
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Re:Barbie typewriter (2015) by lucb1e on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:36AM (#17540787)
It's nothing like Enigma: no plugboard, no sequence of rotors that can be switched out, and (as you've noted) no new alphabet on each keypress.

Enigma is not that easy to crack, even today. I wouldn't compare it to a simple substitution cipher as to laymen that sounds like it was some pretty good shit even if it wasn't as good as Enigma.

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Re:Barbie typewriter (2015) by avshyz on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:36PM (#17550935)
I'm pretty sure I've seen somewhere a JS implementation of an enigma cracker...
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Re:Barbie typewriter (2015) by lucb1e on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @07:31PM (#17554439)
Afaik it's still quite complex to run. But JS is quite an optimised language these days, so that might not be far from the C implementation...
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