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Why is Google in love with Bletchley Park? ( site.of breaking the code of the Enigma Machine)
BBC ^
| 15 November 2011 Last updated at 19:43 ET
| Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News
Posted on 11/16/2011 10:35:32 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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11/16/2011 10:38:25 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks.
I love reading anything about Bletchley Park.
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:39:03 AM PST
by
blam
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:40:55 AM PST
by
SuzyQue
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Because Alan Turing was gay?
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:44:08 AM PST
by
null and void
(MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Polish Cipher Bureau deserves the credit from breaking the Enigma codes.
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:46:50 AM PST
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dfwgator
(I stand with Herman Cain.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:47:27 AM PST
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dfwgator
(I stand with Herman Cain.)
To: null and void
Because not everyone is a Philistine?
To: blam
Try reading: The Secret In Building 26 by Jim DeBrosse and Colin Burke. It’s about the work to build the BOMBE’s in Dayton Ohio at NCR.
To: blam
I hadn't connected that name with Turing and the WWII code breaking ewfforts.
H/T to Fudzilla by the way.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:56:27 AM PST
by
null and void
(MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The Ultra Secret (~1975) by Fredrick W. Winterbotham, is a good read on the Enigma decryption.
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:56:51 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
To: null and void
Read Spy Catcher... If for nothing more than the history that is exposed.
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posted on
11/16/2011 10:59:16 AM PST
by
Herosmith
("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
To: steelyourfaith
To: Herosmith
Will do. I’m an admirer of Turing.
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posted on
11/16/2011 11:01:46 AM PST
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null and void
(MSGT Dean Hopkins USMC (ret) WWII-Korea-Vietnam 11/9/1925-10/22/2011 My hero, my Dad)
To: steelyourfaith
Available at Amazon.
To: steelyourfaith
Fredrick W. Winterbotham Was something of a self promoter, who exaggerates his own role and importance, overstates the British contribution and virtually ignores the very substantial Polish contribution and minimizes the important American contributions. His book "broke the ice" when he published contrary to his oath of secrecy and lead to a flood of other, uniformly better books. Outside of his very limited role as an intermediary between the linguists who prepared the clear copy for the users and the user community (politicians and military officers), he knows almost nothing about the technical details, history or contents of the product that he handled.
I would recommend almost any other book as a good introduction.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Good for Google - a project worthy of them...
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11/16/2011 11:18:46 AM PST
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GOPJ
( Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans.... Will Rogers)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Enigma was broken at Bletchely - and so was its big bad brother
Lorentz which made Enigma look like a rubix cube.
The effort to defeat Lorentz required the construction of the first programmable computer "Colossus" by an engineer named Tommy Flowers.
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11/16/2011 11:21:12 AM PST
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agere_contra
("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
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