Enigma-Cracking Bombe Recreated

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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Re:Deserved honour, indeed.

[hughk]

Homosexuality in the UK wasn't really an issue in the forties. It seemed to become one in the fifties connected with communism and largely through pressure from the US. The justification given was that a homosexual could be blackmailed and in any case was considered morally disreputable.

McCarthy had his big thing against communists in the fifties and hhhe also seemed to bring homosexuality into the deal. The reality was in Britain, Guy Burgess was definitely gay and a traitor ausing a lot of damage but there is no evidence at all that Turing ever was anything other than the hard-working patriot.