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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Independent at all, but collaborated after stealing the information from the two Dutch inventors.The previously credited inventor of the Enigma machine, the German engineer Arthur Scherbius, was one of the two inventors who stole the Enigmamachine design. Now history has been rewritten on the invention of the most infamous cipher machine of them all, with credit going to the Dutchnaval officers, Theo van Hengel and Rudolf Spengler.The only cipher that is mathematically proven to be completely unbreakable is the one-time pad. Even this perfect cipher has been broken,however, when not used correctly. This misuse caused historic consequences during WW2 for Germany and the cold war for the Soviet Union.The Germans used an algorithm to generate random numbers, which means the numbers were not truly random, so these one-time pad messages weredecoded by the Allies for decades. The Soviets re-used some one-time pads, making them 2 or 3-time pads. This crypto sloppiness was exploitedby the US in the Venona Project, which identified 349 Soviet spies in the US and UK. Once again, this cipher technology was credited to thewrong inventors for almost 100 years. It was thought to be invented by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne in 1919 but a 2011 discovery provedit was invented and published in a code book by a Sacramento banker, Frank Miller, 37 years earlier in 1882.When cryptanalysis fails, espionage is the favored and logical next step in the battle of wits. It was espionage that gave the Polish theirfirst break in decrypting the German Enigma machine. The US National Security Agency “back-door” into the Hagelin cipher gave the US an openbook into the military, diplomatic and government secrets of over 100 countries for four decades. This represents one of the greatest stingsin history!The NSA “assistance” in developing Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s resulted
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