Revolutionary Enigma Attacks Unveiled in CrypTool 2 🔍

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In this video, we show our newly implemented state-of-the-art attacks on the Enigma rotor cipher machine. The attacks are right now (at the time of creating this video) only available in the current nightly build of CrypTool 2. It will be available also in the next release version of CrypTool 2.

We recently got some criticism that our (old) Enigma analysis was not state-of-the-art. That was true, since the attacks were 10 years old. Therefore, we developed a new Enigma analyzer based on George Lasry's code.

We implemented the following new attacks:
- Turing Bombe
- Hillclimbing
- Simulated Annealing

Also, to have a faster attack, we implemented an attack based on Jim Gillogly's original paper.

For a basic introduction into the Enigma machine, watch this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG59my_HLtI
Also, the old attack is presented here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNgagh6qpY

If you want to learn the basics of cryptology, have a look at our "Basics of Cryptology" series. Use this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMuvAbyIl0PT6zaRVpK0FCSNMgwAOckTt

If you are interested in details about CrypTool 2, you may have a look at this video here, which gives a short introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELT2-Vgsr8&t=853s

Finally, you may download the latest version of CrypTool 2 here: https://www.cryptool.org/en/ct2/downloads
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