It's pretty common knowledge (as outlined by the answer in this question: "This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone." Why? and other sources) that one of the reasons Enigma was able to be broken by the Allies during WWII was that the Germans were rather lax in their use of best practices of cryptography. If the Germans HAD been using best practices in all of their Enigma use, could Enigma have been broken with the computational capabilities available durin...| Recent Questions - History Stack Exchange
Attacks on encryption continue. The UK government has just reportedly handed Apple a Technical Capability Notice – effectively demanding that Apple allow UK law enforcement access to their users’ encrypted cloud servers. This is the latest in a series of recent pushes by the UK Government and security services to establish backdoors in the end-to-end encrypted services which underpin a great deal of our lives. It is also happening at a time when many of us are really quite scared of the t...| Light Blue Touchpaper