Tuesday 2/3/98 7:02 AM John Young J Orlin Grabbe The crypto problem was solved in 1918. Vernam and Maugborne [sp?] did the work. Gilbert Vernam in 1918. Vernam used two tapes of random characters to generate the additional characters. With the same tapes at each end set to the same start position this system was unbreakable. The Germans decided that the distribution of these key tapes presented too great an operational problem and the Lorenz machine uses a complicated mechanical gearing and cam system to generate a pseudo random sequence with very long period and 10^19 complexity. They thought this was good enough to ensure unbreakability, it wasn't! Fushimi's implementation of Lewis and my GFSR algorithm has period of 2^521 - 1. And LOTS of possible starting seeds. John Young kindly posted my article on putting non-singular binary matrices in one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers. Although the period of a shift register can be 2^521 - 1, 521 bits determines THE EXACT SEQUENCE of the remaining 2^521 - 522 bits. Pseudorandom numbers generators have an easier job than bits used for cryptography. Pseudorandom number generators merely have to deceive statistical tests. Orlin Recall the GIANT radio transmitter in the south of Russia, perhaps Baku. I heard on PBS TV that it was transmitting a shift register sequence. The Russians were apparently trying to communicate with underwater submarines. NSA crypto algorithms mostly rely on shift register sequences - both linear and NON-LINEAR. The R register in my SAND report posted at jya.com implements a non-linear SECRET/NSI feedback algorithm. Perhaps someone may have to put NSA's SECRET/NSI R register non-linear feedback function out on the web some time. So that every one can have a good laugh, of course. Like for the SECRET/NSI number 31 algorithm step. John Young Judge Svet made a ruling. I sent a copy to you by snail mail. Later, billTitle: Colossus Rebuild
This cipher machine enciphered electrical teleprinter signals which used the international 5 bit Baudot teleprinter code. It enciphered the input plain text by adding to it successively two characters before transmission. Because this addition was bit by bit modulo 2, at the receiving end with the Lorenz machine set to the same start position, the same two characters were added again to the received characters revealing the original plain text. This scheme had been developed in America by Gilbert Vernam in 1918. Vernam used two tapes of random characters to generate the additional characters. With the same tapes at each end set to the same start position this system was unbreakable. The Germans decided that the distribution of these key tapes presented too great an operational problem and the Lorenz machine uses a complicated mechanical gearing and cam system to generate a pseudo random sequence with very long period and 10^19 complexity. They thought this was good enough to ensure unbreakability, it wasn't!
A bibliography of works discussing the Lorenz cipher has been compiled by Frode Weierud is availabe here by permission. As is a book chapter describing the Swedish effort to crack Lorenz.
The German high command thought that the Lorenz machine was completely unbreakable and used it for their most secret messages, literally from Hitler to his generals and between generals. The interception and deciphering of these messages gave Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery vital information prior to and after D Day in 1944.
Colossus was the world's first large electronic valve programmable logic calculator, not just one but ten of them were built and operational in Bletchley Park the home of Allied WW II codebreaking.
The question of what is the worlds first computer is less a question of history than a question of definition. The Mark 1 at Manchester (1948) is a strong contender.Colossus found the wheel settings used by the German Lorenz machine operator for a particular message. When these had been found, which took about two hours, they were plugged up on the Tunny machine. It was this machine which actually deciphered the message.
This is the Tunny room in Bletchley Park in 1945.
The cycle determined by the input tape: The intercepted enciphered text tape is joined into a continuous loop with about 150 blank characters in the join. Specially punched start and stop holes indicate the beginning and end of the cipher text.
On receipt of start hole pulse: Start bit stream generators and send sampling pulses to reader output. Execute basic machine cycle until receipt of stop hole pulse: Staticise counter states onto relays. After a delay, reset counters and reset bit stream generators to a new start position.
The first stage was to produce accurate machine drawings of the frames for Colossus (all the original machine drawings had been burnt in 1960). This involved three months of eyestrain pouring over the photographs and using 3D projections to transfer the details to a CAD system, EasyCad running on a 486 PC.
Next problem was the optical paper tape reader system. The details of this are not shown in any of the photographs. However I managed to locate Dr Arnold Lynch who designed the reader system in 1942. Although well into his 80's Dr Lynch came to my house and using my CAD system we re-engineered the reader system to his original specifications. Then I built it and here it is.
It uses original Colossus hard vacuum photocells, shown here on the left and a mask onto which the image of the tape is projected by a Colossus lense.
All the racks are now in place.
Here are some of the decade counters.
We are also rebuilding the Tunny machine.
We are now rapidly cloning circuit panels to populate all the racks.
I need lots more valves: EF36, 37 or 37A pentodes, 6J5 triodes, 6V6 tetrodes and GT1C gas filled triode thyratrons. The 6J5's and 6V6's should be the large glass versions to look right.
Please send any contributions, valves or money, to me (Tony Sale) at "The Colossus Rebuild Project, 15 Northampton Road, Bromham, Beds MK43 8QB" tel: 01234 822788 email: [email protected]
Come and see the Colossus Rebuild, the Lorenz machine and codebreaking exhibitions in Bletchley Park.
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