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Alan Turing Papers On Code Breaking Released By GCHQ
peetm writes "Two 70-year-old papers by Alan Turing on the theory of code breaking have been released by the government's communications headquarters, GCHQ. It is believed Turing wrote the papers while at Bletchley Park working on breaking German Enigma codes. A GCHQ mathematician said the fact that the contents had been restricted 'shows what a tremendous importance it has in the foundations of our subject.'"
I can't find any links to the "released" papers. No fanfare on http://www.gchq.gov.uk/.
Anyone?
Alan Turing's work continues to demonstrate "what a tremendous importance it has in the foundations" of computing technology in general, not just crypto.
one wonders what else is there if they are only releasing these now ?
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John Jones
I love how Turing articles never mention what the British did to him. Still makes me sick every time I think about it.
This is how humans treat their best and brightest.
"Alan Turing just had brilliant ideas way ahead of their time which were terribly important to the future of the world if you like," Mr Harper said.
I kinda wish geniuses like Turing were rewarded as well as a second string shortstop or bench warming basketball player.
I am going to The Pirate Bay now. If the papers are not there, I shall be sorely disappointed.
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I think 30 million dead Russians had something to do with that as well. Not to diminish Turing's contribution, but how much did it matter compared to that?
I see a story but it's devoid of links. Does anybody know where the papers can be downloaded?
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Yes the UK wanted to keep the public away from the 'we broke the codes' in ~near realtime ww2 spoiler.
How would other countries, new, large, small, friendly, neutral view the news?- would they all take on the effort for extreme generational crypto security and make the job of a less well funded GCHQ not so easy?
The UK also had a few hundred years practice in blackmail and felt Turing going on some European holiday was a security risk.
Who would he meet, who would seduce him, what might maths, machine and ww2 topics cover....
At some point his unique skills vs the risk of Soviet interest might have tipped as more people understood the new maths and computing.
He was a risk and not unique anymore.
The 1996 movie "Breaking the Code" is a good staring point http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115749/
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
He, along with others, shortened the length of the war. So you had 30 million dead Russian instead of 60, 90, or god knows how many million dead Russians. And dead various other nationalities come to that. I'd say they both mattered, one shortened the war, one ensured it wasn't lost in the mean time.
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They had to wait for the statue of limitations to run out otherwise he could have been posthumously deported to US for DMCA violations.
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He packed fudge up Dönitz and Hitler's ass so hard they cried uncle!
Notice I said "the sacrifice of millions of other men and women". Yes, that includes the Russians. I didn't say "millions of British" or any other nationality for that matter. Would you prefer it if I mentioned every nationality that fought with the Allies in WWII? The contributions of the Australians, the Indians, the Canadians, the brave Polish, Dutch, and French resistance members, numerous other states, even the people of Crete were just as important as that of Russia, because while they may not have contributed in the numbers the Russians did, they were willing to dedicated their lives, and in many cases gave their lives, in order to keep the world free. To pick out and name one nationality would be wrong.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil