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New Enigma Machine for a New Century
January 5, 2011
Polish mathematicians and cryptographers have created an "Enigma" machine for the 21st century.
The effort was headed by Jerzy Gawinecki, director of the Institute of Mathematics and Cryptology of the Military University of Technology, in Warsaw. The team began work in 2006 to recognize the 75th anniversary of the Polish Cipher Bureau's cracking (in late 1932) of Germany's Enigma ciphers.
Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, the Polish Cipher Bureau gave Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to French and British military intelligence.
The prototype device, called the "National Encryptor,” will be used at first only by commercial institutions to handle sensitive computer and phone data. If the device proves unbreakable, it will then be used to protect state secrets of the Republic of Poland.
Source: Poland.pl (December 29, 2010)
Polish mathematicians and cryptographers have created an "Enigma" machine for the 21st century.
The effort was headed by Jerzy Gawinecki, director of the Institute of Mathematics and Cryptology of the Military University of Technology, in Warsaw. The team began work in 2006 to recognize the 75th anniversary of the Polish Cipher Bureau's cracking (in late 1932) of Germany's Enigma ciphers.
Five weeks before the outbreak of World War II, the Polish Cipher Bureau gave Enigma-decryption techniques and equipment to French and British military intelligence.
The prototype device, called the "National Encryptor,” will be used at first only by commercial institutions to handle sensitive computer and phone data. If the device proves unbreakable, it will then be used to protect state secrets of the Republic of Poland.
Source: Poland.pl (December 29, 2010)
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Start Date:
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
