Enigmas, Shmigmas: Polish Ciphers and the Miracle on the Vistula

rogue_corq@lemmy.world to NonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world – 26 points –

History always seems to forget Poland's absolutely head-down commitment to espionage. I feel pretty confident in appreciating how they still feel, today.

Also relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Enigma_double

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P5Ka5PwXXg

Mods, be merciful I realize this is somewhat low effort and I suck at memeing, but I love this community for the history I learn here.

Spoiler: ::: spoiler spoiler Get closer to Poland, we'll fuck you :::

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while what the Polish code breakers did was a great feat in and of its self, to really dumb it down, it was basically brute forcing the encryption while knowing some parts of a message in advance and rebuilding the workings of the conductive disks.

sadly, the methods they used were easily defeated by adding an extra disk