Talk:SIGABA

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Contents 1 Sigaba company 2 Additional rotors 3 Rename 4 Tweaked Download Links

[edit] Sigaba company

There is a company doing business as Sigaba (Secure Data in Motion, dba Sigaba). Maybe this company (www.sigaba.com) ought to get a mention?

Is the company particularly notable? — Matt Crypto 18:00, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It ought to. It is a very significant player in the secure email market, but I'm biased. DoomBringer 06:44, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The disambiguation link in the header seems a good approach. — Matt Crypto 22:20, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. I'd add more to the Sigaba corp page, but I'm affialated. DoomBringer 02:56, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Additional rotors

Additional rotors do provide more security even when a message's length isn't great enough to cause them to advance. A static rotor (such as the fourth one found on some Enigmas) causes a 26-fold increase in the number of possible decryptions.

I've removed that comment. — Matt Crypto 20:09, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

The SIGABA was the US Army designation, and CSP 888 was the Navy designation. A "neutral" version appears to be ECM Mark II, and I propose we rename this article and use that term throughout. — Matt Crypto 20:09, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tweaked Download Links

This is Michael Lee. Since I am no longer a student, the CS Department will soon take my old site http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kirbysdl/ offline. I have set up a permanent archival mirror at http://ucsb.curby.net/ that includes copies of the thesis, and I have changed the article's links to point to the new site. To show that I'm not some random wacko, I've included a link on the original cs.ucsb.edu site pointing to ucsb.curby.net. The new site is entirely noncommercial/nonprofit.--Kirbysdl 09:39, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Cheers Michael! (And congratulations on graduating.) — Matt Crypto 16:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)