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Fialka: the bigger, better, Russian Enigma (wondersandmarvels.com)
31 points by liotier on Dec 3, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



One correction - fialka is not color purple but the flower Viola (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_(plant)

It follows the Russian military tradition of naming weapon systems with rather incongruous names that rather befit children toys (or actually are names of characters from children's books) - such as the butterfly, apricot, the little ballerina, the squirrel, bouquet, little lamb (that's just ones starting with a and b).

Full list (in Russian): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5...


Referenced first is an impressive:

"Cryptanalysis of GOST"

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/attachments/2243...




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