Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech

From	Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech
Date	2025-09-06 22:28 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On Sat, 6 Sep 2025 12:43:30 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On Sat, 6 Sep 2025 06:53:13 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>> Would seem to suffer from the same flaw as XOR encryption: if you
>> know what some part of the message is, you could replace that part
>> with something else.
>
> there wasn't even the ability to record such stuff easily available
> for post processing

The article says a lot of it was. Remember, the Germans invented
magnetic tape.

There was also the possibility of replay attacks. E.g. “Ignore
previous message, new instructions follow”.

I agree this is all with the benefit of hindsight, which is always 6/6
...

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  Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-09-05 16:05 +0200
    Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-06 06:53 +0000
      Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-06 06:42 -0400
        Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-09-06 12:43 +0100
          Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-06 14:40 -0400
          Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-09-06 22:28 +0000
            Re: SIGSALY - Ultimate 1940s Tech c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-07 03:34 -0400

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