Posted on 01/16/2009 10:04:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
America Newspapers and Media are all part of the propaganda machine. If you watch the tv media closely, all they do is read from the teleprotor machine. It’s all controlled; even the voting machines. Hitler couldn’t do a better job with the technology they have today.
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“The Enigma machine was taken on by the German military, starting in 1926,” Alexander explained.’
Most don’t realize just how effective the Enigma Machine actually was. Nor do they know it was the primary system, then the primary back up, for the US Submarine Force up through the early 1980’s.
The US Navy version had twelve rotors, as opposed to the German’s original Enigma, which I think had only three.
I know, I rewired em every month for three years between 1978 and 1981.
Way way ahead of its time, which makes the ‘breaking’ of it even more impressive looking back.
Hogan’s Heroes was based in fact.
I think the Germany Navy machines had four rotors, and the Wehrmacht/SS machines had three.
Thanks. It took several hours to rewire during ‘end of month’ prep for the Navy’s version. Pretty sure it was discontinued shortly after 1981.
I’m not familiar with it. I just know what I did as a crypto supervisor ‘back in the day’.
Indeed. Goebbels, were he not too busy dealing with the fires of hell, would be extremely jealous, I have no doubt.
I never had the secret decoder ring, but I had the Secret Squadron jacket patch from Captain Midnight.
Said Ambrose: He did.
This same ww2 espionage secret has been “revealed” by the media every month for like the last 30 years.
As usual the press has it all wrong.
I became a history student, in 1976 after reading Anthony Brown’s “Body Guard of Lies”. It was possible to write about it then, because of the Freedom of Information Act.
For the next 9 years I studied WWII sig/intel. Cryptography is an interesting field. It’s impact on the War was huge.
Lots of good literature in the open for years.
Of course the press does not have a clue.
I started with Paper Tape Punches at Digital. What a mess.
Wow...I was a ‘tape cutter’ out of RM A school at Comsublant back in early 1979. Must be nice today not having to deal with THAT system.
Our version used 10 out of 20 rotor set and fir set switched coupled with a mechanical rotor stepping scheme. By 1950’s we used the KLB-47 which used 10 out of 20 rotors and attachable stepping rings. In fact these were commercially sold by Teletype Corp. But they were far more complex in that they included not only the aphabet but also number as several special characters.
The CSp-2900 unit with a skilled person could accommodate a badly garbled message and decode it. That was impossible with the KLB-47.
Everything is digital now and far more complex then the DES standard.
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I’ve found Enigma to be fascinating since Winterbotham’s book, “The Ultra Secret”. It’s a huge part of how we won the war — we were reading their codes and they weren’t reading ours.
oops, meant you...
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I’ve found Enigma to be fascinating since Winterbotham’s book, “The Ultra Secret”. It’s a huge part of how we won the war — we were reading their codes and they weren’t reading ours.
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