any Biden votes on it?
Funny enough, I’m halfway through reading the novel “Cryptonomicon”, which has a big plotline about the enigma machines and German U-boats.
Dominion is the new Enigma.
WHAT IS AN ENIGMA CODE?
The code of Batemans rival ed nigma
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With a name like Joyce Williams shouldn’t this author have more familiarity with the English language than is exhibited in this excerpt? Such a jumble of words!
I musta slept a couple hundred years.
“... The Enigma code machine was made in the cold Baltic Sea in Europe nearly three centuries after its drastic beneficial purpose had been served during the second world war....”
Three CENTURIES???
This machine was created in the 1940s. That, at least according the “Old Math” that I learned in school in the 1970s, is NOT three hundred years ago.
Although it may as well be at this point...
“The Enigma code machine was made in the cold Baltic Sea in Europe nearly three centuries after its drastic beneficial purpose...”
Apparently, we are in the year 2245 and we are all still alive and Donald Trump is in his 57th term as President of the United States.
And “Nazi Operated”????
While SOME German Kreigsmarine personnel were probably die-hard National Socialists, this piece of equipment was a standard-issue cryptographic device used on the U-Boats; hence, German naval personnel operated it, the majority of whom were probably just sailors performing their normal duties.
Words mean things.
The key to cracking the Enigma was to figure out what the settings were for the day. At the start of the war the machine had 3 rotors and a 4th was added later. There were also a set of plug wires that further increased the possibilities.
Once you found the settings, you entered the encrypted message into the machine and out came the decrypted message (and vice versa).
Turing’s machine (predecessor for modern computers) was set up to find the settings. The big break came when they figured out that the weather data was being transmitted in the beginning of the message, and I believe the messages contained “heil hitler”.
Early computers were often called Turing machines.
In parallel to the British efforts, at Blechley Park, to find the settings, Americans were working on a system in Dayton Ohio at NCR called the Bombe. The Bombe was built to solve the 4-rotor Naval Enigma machines. These early computers were mass produced and shipped to Mount Vernon Seminary for Girl, a requisitioned former boarding school in Washington DC, where they were essential to our Navy’s efforts in the Atlantic.
Some good books are “The Secret In Building 26” by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke, and “Seizing the Enigma” by David Kahn. You can also watch “The Imitation Game”.
Just think, a hundred years from now, archaeologists will dig deep into basements of government SOS buildings, and unearth the code that three hundred years prior were used in Dominion voting machines.
KRYTEN: Sir, with the greatest respect, that is complete and utter shash. (His right leg is bouncing up and down, nervously.)
LISTER: Kryten, I know when you're lying. Your right foot jiggles. It's involuntary.
KRYTEN: Nonsense. (It jiggles harder.) I'm not afraid to die. (Harder still.) For me, death holds no fear. (His leg is now jiggling so much his whole body is moving.) I believe in Silicon Heaven! I believe in an afterlife for androids! Haven't you got through those damn manacles yet!?
LISTER: (Yelling) Kryten!! (LISTER bangs the hammer down.) I'm not gonna let it happen, man.
KRYTEN: Cause and effect, sir. It already _has_ happened. There's nothing we can do except to try and save your life. (Motioning towards the gauntlet.) Okay, now I think I have this, it's a variant of the Enigma decoding system.
LISTER: Enigma! Enig -- Enigma!
KRYTEN: "Enig," of course! My last words! Well, anyway, if this thing works, it should age those manacles by half a million years.
LISTER: If it doesn't work?
KRYTEN: It'll wipe out the universe.
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And it had 630,000,000,000 votes for Biden in Minnesota alone.
I didn’t realize that WW2 was 3 centuries ago. Boy am I old.
The flaw in the enigma machine is each word has the same amount of characters.
A submarine would send messages in maritime language in German.
Not easy but you can parse out possible messages.