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Re:WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigm... by M2Ys4U on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @09:34PM (#18071976)
>There's also a part on how the secret on Enigma's breaking has been kept for decades after the war, supposedly because Enigma machines had been distributed to British colonies (and ex-colonies) and British intelligence wanted to be able to decrypt their communication.

Not to mention any units captured by the Soviets - GCHQ wanted to make sure any use of the units by them would be decryptable as well.

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Re:WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigm... by qubex on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:17AM (#18073489)
GCHQ and it’s American counterparts were more interested in deceiving the Soviets into believing that they hadn’t been able to break a type of cipher unrelated to Enigma, namely the pseudo-Vernam Ciphers as embodied by Tunny/Lorenz/* Geheimschreiber* for transmitting stream-enciphered teleprinter traffic (as decoded by Colossus). Enigma was trivial by comparison and it’s insecurity was known to the USSR.
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