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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:52 ADT
jcaldwel@iquest.net
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 03:57:46 -0400
On 23-Jun-98 mgraffam@mhv.net wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:
>> I think there is good science to be done here. Not all of this will be
>> immediately obvious how to break. Some it will actually be interesting.
>> Some of it will be publishable. And if we are ever going to teach
>> people how to do cryptanalysis, it makes sense to go after the low-
>> hanging fuit first.
>
> With this you've nailed it.
>
> There is plenty of literature available for breaking classical ciphers,
> and a dedicated beginner can fill his time nicely breaking transposition
> ciphers, aristocrats, polyalphabetic ciphers, and then move on to the
> analysis of rotor machines. While few people would actually go ahead and
> break a rotor (are there actually any true rotor machine simulators
> available?),
Ahem, unix crypt? The crypt breakers workbench can break files encrypted
with these, but I can't make it work in linux..yet.
Also:
Lists one in basic:
http://www.lls.se/~mux/pheav/ph03.html
All I could find on funet:
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/crypt/mirrors/rpub.cl.msu.edu/crypt/other/
enigma-modification-peake.c
If someone has one that has a good user interface and works with gcc I would
appreciate a url.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:52 ADT