On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Even the famous Enigma >> machine was a lot more than just letter-for-letter substitution - a >> double letter in the cleartext wouldn't be represented by a double >> letter in the result - and once the machine's secrets were figured >> out, the day's key could be reassembled fairly readily. >> > > The day's key for a given network, with the Luftwaffe easily being the worst > offenders. Some networks remained unbroken at the end of WWII.
I was massively oversimplifying, here. But there's a reason that modern crypto doesn't use str.translate() level ciphers. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list