Al Qaeda in Iraq "Pretty Much Intact" - U.S. General

[Michael Tee]

<<You mean the POLISH mathematicians who cracked the code?>>

No, I meant the British cryptographers.  Probably Jewish, but that's just a wild guess.

<< Yeah, I think you said that Russians killing Poles during the war was OK because they were mostly anti-Semitic anyway?>>

Absolutely not true.  I was referring to the alleged killing of Polish army officers.  It was OK because the Polish army's officer corps, with a few notable exceptions, was almost completely anti-Semitic.  They're fair game for anyone, the Red Army included.  A few good guys might have gotten caught up in the sweep, but that's war - - a few good guys die undeserved deaths so that a shitload of bad guys can be made to pay for their crimes.  At the end of the day, the world is left a much better place than it was when the day began.  Fewer anti-Semites, racists and fascists.  In this particular case, a lot fewer.

[Amianthus]

No, I meant the British cryptographers.  Probably Jewish, but that's just a wild guess.

Enigma was cracked by Polish mathematicians. The Brits used that information (purchased from the Poles by spies stationed in France) to create a "reverse Enigma" machine, making decryption faster.

[Michael Tee]

If that's the case, thanks for the correction and more power to the Polish mathematicians.  Hopefully they weren't caught up in the Katyn Forest massacre, that would have been an injustice.

[Amianthus]

If that's the case, thanks for the correction and more power to the Polish mathematicians.

"The German plugboard-equipped Enigma that would become the Third Reich's principal crypto-system was reconstructed - with the aid of French-supplied intelligence material from a German spy - by the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau in December 1932. From then until the outbreak of World War II, the Poles held a monopoly of decryption of this Enigma model. In July 1939, as war drew near, the Polish Cipher Bureau initiated the French and British into its Enigma-breaking techniques and technology at a conference in Warsaw, laying the foundations for wartime decryption of Enigma-enciphered messages."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma