Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/05
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> 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
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