On 5 December 2014 at 13:36, Tomasz Rola <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > From what I've gathered so far, up to early 1970-ties the > popular knowledge was that Enigma was unbreakable, and at the same > time some derivative of it had been sold to third world countries (I > don't remember who sold them, UK or USA). [...]
I believe you are thinking of Boris Hagelin and Crypto AG. There's lots of material easily found online, but as always with this kind of thing, you have to parse and filter carefully to avoid the many conspiracy theories on the one hand, and doubtless disinformation on the other. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
