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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. Sommebody set up us the Bombe by ezeecheez · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Take off every 'zig.

  2. Enigma-Cracking Bombe by brunascle · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that's no match for my paradox-absorbing crumple zones

  3. OH GNOSE, MEIN FUHRER by ronadams · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Somebody set up us the bombe! ...sorry.

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  4. A. T. by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Alan Turing, the man who felt a computer intelligence could have a soul if God wished it. And who died Snow White style, via a poisoned apple at far too young an age. RIP.

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