To: Ragtime Cowgirl
at Bletchley Park, the home of World War II codebreakers who cracked the complex German Enigma code.I didn't know Bletchley Park was in Poland.
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08/21/2004 3:33:03 PM PDT by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: dfwgator
It is true that the Poles were first to be involved in deciphering the Enigma codes, but the ciphers they decrypted were from early machines not much different from the commercial versions on sale in the 1920's, which they had purchased. The machines used by the German navy and air force during WW11 were many magnitudes more difficult to crack. It was the work of the brilliant Alan Turing which ultimately proved successful and heralded the onset of the modern digital computer.
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