This article pretty clearly isn't intended to be a technical manual for the Enigma process, but rather explaining the basic idea and possible uses to a mainstream audience. People reading a general-interest technology site like MIT TR aren't going to be capable of understanding the actual math and encryption techniques involved. If they were, they would likely be getting their Enigma news from the papers involved, or the project's website, or progress logs, etc.
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Amazing how shallowly an article can cover the specifics of something like this. The best explanation they gave was "mathematical tricks."
The discussion on reddit [1] is actually fairly decent, thanks to the active participation of the creators.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3bmbi5/mits_bitcoi...
Here's the whitepaper: http://enigma.media.mit.edu/enigma_full.pdf
This article pretty clearly isn't intended to be a technical manual for the Enigma process, but rather explaining the basic idea and possible uses to a mainstream audience. People reading a general-interest technology site like MIT TR aren't going to be capable of understanding the actual math and encryption techniques involved. If they were, they would likely be getting their Enigma news from the papers involved, or the project's website, or progress logs, etc.