Check them out at todays www.gizmodo.com
cuhulin

helmsman wrote:
Do you happen to know if there is software for a virtual Enigma for
computer to radio interface? I don't think it would violate FCC rules
if it was used as they have the code.

I suspect it'll violate the rules, if only because they don't have your key.

--
All relevant people are pertinent.
All rude people are impertinent.
Therefore, no rude people are relevant.
-- Solomon W. Golomb

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:56:16 GMT, helmsman
wrote:

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:56:31 -0600, wrote:

Check them out at todays www.gizmodo.com
cuhulin

That is neat.
Do you happen to know if there is software for a virtual Enigma for
computer to radio interface? I don't think it would violate FCC rules
if it was used as they have the code.
What rules?

David wrote:

Do you happen to know if there is software for a virtual Enigma for
computer to radio interface? I don't think it would violate FCC rules
if it was used as they have the code.
What rules?


You, as a ham operator, are not supposed to transmit encoded messages.
It's the same in Canada.




mike

"clifto" schreef in bericht
...
helmsman wrote:
Do you happen to know if there is software for a virtual Enigma for
computer to radio interface? I don't think it would violate FCC rules
if it was used as they have the code.

Look at this page
http://www.xat.nl/enigma/

MRe

Sheesh, I'd love to find an Enigma machine in the trash. I know what
they look like, as I've seen one at the Smithsonian.

Maybe if I smash the glass and run fast enough, I can escape across the
Mall to the Metro stop.

an_old_friend wrote:
clifto wrote:
helmsman wrote:
Do you happen to know if there is software for a virtual Enigma for
computer to radio interface? I don't think it would violate FCC rules
if it was used as they have the code.

I suspect it'll violate the rules, if only because they don't have your key.
if you tranmitted a intro saying (i'll use my call" this KB9RQZ
tranmiting enigma code 4 rotor with the folow setiings ..." it should
just stay within the law as well being reasonable secertif tat was your
intent

I doubt it. It's not all that many years ago that FCC prohibited
ASCII use on the air, because it's a code. But it's your license.
Besides, they hardly ever prosecute anyway.

--
All relevant people are pertinent.
All rude people are impertinent.
Therefore, no rude people are relevant.
-- Solomon W. Golomb

PCypher Light. www.softwar.net

Yeah,I once saw an ad about a real sho nuff World War Two Enigma Code
Machine in a magazine about twenty five something years ago.(instead,I
caught a flight in November of 1971 and I went to Sioux Falls,South
Dakota and I bought a 1914 Ford T model one seat roadster car,I still
have/own that car too and I ill not sell or trade for love or
money.Also,instead,I bought a half acre of land in North Florida a bunch
of years ago,I still have/own that half acre too and I will not sell or
trade for love or money,Sue me,if y'all dont like it) If I had had about
three thousand five hundread dollars to spare,I certainly would have
seriously considered buying that Enigma Code Machine.
cuhulin

I remember reading the first book which scooped the enigma story. Title
and author: I forget ;/.

Anyway it said:

1) Britain used decoded E messages to learn what the Germans were
targeting that day during Battle of Britain. Air Command moved their
fighter patrols more or less into the general area where the Huns would
be showing up. This doubled effective air power and turned possible
English defeat into a victory. According to the author, England's radar
system was helpful, but the highly secret E code breaking was what was
decisive.

2) Rommel's Africa Corp went from winning to losing thanks to decoding
messages which had the details of when and where the German fuel
conveys were to show up next in the ports. England let a few convoys
get through in order to hide the fact that they were reading the mail,
otherwise they sank most of the rest, IOW, Montgomery won in Africa
'cause his tanks had a reasonable supply of petrol, and the Huns'
didn't. If Germany's messages were in the clear, they would have had
enough fuel, but they weren't.

3) Germany lost the war in the Atlantic 'cause decoding revealed where
their 'milk cow' tankers were lying in wait to refuel the long range
attack submarines.

4) Decoded E messages told Ike where the German armies were waiting in
France, which changed D day from a giant gamble to an almost guaranteed
success.

Perhaps the book was an exaggeration, but pretty much the author
believed Hitler would have had a stalemate, not a defeat. Except for
the captured Enigma devices which enormously aided the economical
deploying of Allied forces.

"Hatfield" wrote in message
oups.com...
I remember reading the first book which scooped the enigma story. Title
and author: I forget ;/.

Try free reading at URL:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/enigma_01.shtml