Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> just to add a bit more to this - I understand that it was a version of the > Turing machine which was used to decode messages from the 'Enigma' coding > machine during WWII. > > The centre for receiving these messages was at Bletchley Park . FWIW > Bletchley is now part of Milton Keynes - where Leica UK are based - phew had > to work that in ;-)) Just some of my nationalist blabbery :) Polish mathematicians started working on deciphering Enigma code in early 1927. In early 1938, decrypting Enigma messages haven't been a major problem for them.. For mathematical theory of Enigma, please look at: http://insci14.ucsd.edu/~ma187s/students/enigma.html For full story: http://home.us.net/~encore/Enigma/enigma.html And some more, about Turing machine and Enigma: http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/hangar/4040/bombe.html For Basic Enigma Machine look at: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~conrad/krypto/misc/enigma.bas - ----- St. (Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy) http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy Echelon/Carnivore lines: Bob Black, Hakim Bey, Ralph Klein, Sabotage in the American Workplace >