Crypto Show on the History Channel Tonight (9/12)

Posted by Hemos on Sunday September 12, 1999 @08:31AM from the cracking-the-code dept.

aegrumet writes "The History Channel is doing a show tonight at 9pm EDT on WW2 crypto called "The Ultra Enigma". The blurb on their program listing reads "British codebreaking and capture of the German military's super cipher machine, the Enigma, enabled the Allies to pull off one of the greatest campaigns of deception in military history, and changed the course of World War II." This will be especially interesting to those who, like me, are reading or have recently finished Neal Stephenson's book Cryptonomicon. "

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Whoa...sudden flash forward... by JoeShmoe · 1999-09-11 23:57 · Score: 5

Whenever I see topics like this (um, history) I can't help but wonder what the History Channel will be doing specials on in like ten or twenty years...

"Rise and Fall of an Empire: The Microsoft Story"

"The Penguin Cronicles: Why the Inter(pla)net runs Linux"

Or mebbe I'll just be watching the SlashDot channel...

- JoeShmoe

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