Pointers on Historical Cryptanalysis
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Tue, 05 Mar 2002 11:47:52 -0800
We ask for pointers to information and/or publications
on operations and systems outlined in Peter Wright's
"Spycatcher":
1. The Radio Operations Committee.
2. ENGULF and STOCKADE operations against,
respectively, the Egyptian and French embassy
cipher systems and the methods of acquiring
cipher machine signals and emanations.
3. Wright uses the term "radio illumination" in connection
with ENGULF and STOCKADE. What does this term
mean and what is its technology? Over what distance
is it effective? How does this differ from TEMPEST
technology?
4. Ergonomic Theory of cryptanalysis associated with
GCHQ's Hugh Alexander. Alexander's supposition is
that with sufficiently powerful computers any random
number generated by human participation can be
broken through persistent search for the unavoidable
signature of human participation.
Thanks very much.