Enigma

>>62005742
/g/ would be fapping to young alan turing in knee highs

Literally a botnet

Can you install Gentoo on enigma? If yes we have a chance.

We would be too busy reading manga and using ham radio to discuss the latest transistors

Did they really break it thanks to every message starting with "heil hitler" or some similar shit? I can't believe the faggotness of the Germans

>>62006183
It was part of the reason. The biggest fuckups were bad keying procedures and overuse of keys, just like with all other crypto machines of the era.

>>62006183
No. But they did find it useful that there were some stations that never had anything to report/always reported the same thing. They also frequently got their hands on the code papers, telling users what settings to use on what day

It's laughably easy to bruteforce enigma on a modern computer. If we didn't know how it operates and only had access to cyphertexts it would be harder.

>>62005742
sadly no

>>62005742
Enigma was easy to break.
The Germans also assumed any captured message would be decrypted, they just didn't think it would happen fast enough to be of much use ("we attack at dawn" means nothing 2 weeks later)

It was the Lorenz cipher that was very difficult to crack.
Germans thought it would be impossible, and so did the Soviets who continued to use captured Lorenz machines for decades after the war.

>>62006183
You're thinking about the Lorenz cipher.

They could crack it because they send the same message twice without altering the settings (which is a grave violation of protocol) while making some small changes the 2nd time like abbreviating "Heil Hitler" to "HH".

The enigma was based on a machine used in business for secret messages. The patent was held by a Canadian businessman named William Stevenson. (or maybe Stephenson).
He made frequent trips to Germany before the war and arranged to meet Churchill to let him know he suspected the germans might be looking at the design for a coding machine.
Later, Churchill put him in charge of intellgence for the entire western theatre and also made him his personal liason with the US president. He also personally funded Camp X which was the british / canadian / us training camp for commando and covert operations located in Ontario.
Also the Poles cracked enigma messages before the Brits did.
The disasterous Dieppe raid was also a cover for an unsuccessful commando raid on a nearby building that housed a new 4 rotor enigma. I was a compelling reason the raid went ahead, dispite one reason after another to call it off arising. Thousands died, and the British managed to crack the 4 rotor machines messages as well about 6 months later, anyway.
And the Germans also had a 12 rotor lorenze cypher machine the Brits cracked. It was used for ultra secret top command shit, only require one person to use it where the enigma machine required a team of two and code books.

>>62005742
no because /g/ is very dumb and also would have sided with the nazis

>>62007442
>would have sided with the nazis
no

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>>62007442
>>62007459
>Choosing the less sophisticated and less technologically advanced side that won by sheer zerg rushing alone.
>/g/ Not choosing the side with the groundbreaking technology and plans for the future that would make the optimistic 50's future look like a child's dreams, militarily and civil projects wise.

Yes a good portion would join them.

>>62005742
KEK
[spoiler]NO

>>62005775
/thread

>>62005742
/g/ cant even install gentoo

>>62005742
We would harden it.

>>62007570
>the side with the groundbreaking technology and plans for the future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
The Nazis were basically proto-Tumblr. They literally rejected reality on an ideological basis because they think meaningful knowledge can only be derived from their personal feelings.

>>62009543
that what (((they))) what you to believe.

Americans and Russians both were in a hurry to get hold of as many German scientists as possible.

>>62005742
They'd make a cracking logo for it!

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>>62007459
>>62007442
We'd all be rotting in a camp for degeneracy