Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
by FredPret on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:55PM
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This nation gave us the first mecahnical computer, the first programming language, Alan Turing, the first digital computer, broke the Enigma encryption, and the World Wide Web… and now, this.
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Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
by defrost on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:16PM
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> broke the Enigma encryption
Poland?
> and the World Wide Web
CERN is a country?
Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
by djohnston on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:04PM
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Poland broke Enigma? Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale?
CERN is not a country. Neither is Tim Berners Lee for that matter.
Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
by defrost on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:20PM
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Specifically Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski - they even built the first bombe machines which were scaled up at Bletchley park.
> Is the whole Bletchley park history just some fairytale?
More the common mythology about Turing that gets repeated by people that never checked the details.
Bletchley Park was real and people like Bill Tutte cracked some seriously difficult encryption methods more difficult than Enigma.
Tim Berners Lee alone, without being part of a vast group that adopted and used WWW, wasn't sufficient for WWW to take hold.
There were many proto markup attempts, he authored one but it needed soil to grow, s/soil/CERN/.
Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
by tcptomato on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:49PM
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> the first digital computer
Z3?
Re:The U.K. Government Is Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
by jjgreen on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:08AM
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I guess they mean Colossus (1943) but debatable https://www.britannica.com/technology/Atanasoff-Berry-Comput...