Enigma.

This is coolbert:

Consider this as a joke? A joke? Right? A joke?

From Harry at Sharkhunters and the most recent KTB.

The much storied and fabled Enigma cryptographic machine as first developed one-hundred years ago now is going to be placed back into service?

A general solution to the Enigma cryptograph worked out seventy years ago and well understood. Enigma newly manufactured again will find wide usage? This just cannot be so!!

"The Enigma is about to make a comeback. The German Federal Office for Communications Security (BSK) is currently having 10,000 copies manufactured, which are to be used in all federal agencies under secret protection from May [2021] onwards. The Second World War also brought an end to the use of the well-known Enigma encryption machine in Germany. There was a switch to other machines, and later electronic encryption devices prevailed. According to a press release from the German Federal Office for Communications Security (BSK), however, the Enigma will soon make a comeback. All 122 federal authorities in Germany that are subject to secrecy protection are to use Enigma for encryption from May 2021. This applies in particular to data classified as “EU Districted” and “NATO  Districted.” 10,000 new Enigmas are currently being produced for this purpose. Comeback comes as no surprise. The BSK’s decision does not come as a surprise. In recent years, German authorities have had to contend with numerous IT security attacks,  which have also repeatedly undermined encryption programs."

"According to BSK President Erna Schonböhm, this problem has long been known. 'However, experience shows that cyber attacks on encryption software pose a much greater threat than insecure encryption methods,' Schonböhm said, 'so we accept possible vulnerabilities in Enigma encryption and are also planning some additional precautionary measures.'”

IF YOU LISTEN CLOSELY YOU WILL TURING AND ARTHUR SCHERBIUS ARE LAUGHING!

And you the devoted reader to the blog should be laughing also. See the German Internet web site CIPHERBRAIN and see why this is so.

coolbert.