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Enigma-Cracking Bombe Recreated

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-shall-never-surrender dept.

toxcspdrmn writes "Volunteers at Bletchley Park have recreated a working replica of the electromechanical bombe used to crack the Germans' Enigma encryption. The bombe was designed by Polish cryptologists and refined by Alan Turing and colleagues at Bletchley Park. The replica joins a recreated electronic Colossus — generally considered the first electronic computer. Impressive work when you consider that Winston Churchill ordered the originals to be completely destroyed at the end of WWII."

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  1. Re:Deserved honour, indeed. by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Turing's death is a warning about the dangers of discriminating against people because they are different.

    For all values of 'different'.

    John.