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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Enigma, ULTRA
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.201639.12700@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:16:39 GMT
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- ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley) writes:
- >Does anyone know of any technical description in the open literature
- >of the work done at Bletchley Park during WW2? There doesn't seem to
- >be much information in Kahn's _Codebreakers_, but as that was
- >published in 1967 I'm not very surprised.
-
- Read "Turing - The Enigma" for a biography of Turing and a general
- discussion of life and work at Bletchley Park. "Ultra Goes to War"
- and "The Ultra Secret" discuss the military implications. If you can
- find it, "Modern Machine Cryptography" describes exactly how the work
- at Bletchley Park was done, with photos of the gear and BASIC programs
- so you can simulate a bombe. I've heard that a bombe has been shown
- at the Smithsonian (it may be in storage at the moment; they have far
- more stuff than museum space).
-
- There's a movie deal in this somewhere.
-
- John Nagle
-
- ps: No, I'm not going to look up the authors and publishers for people.
-