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Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park's Lost Heroes
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#13If you are into this sort of thing, I highly recommend The Codebreakers by David Kahn. Fascinating history of cryptography with good coverage of the WWII era.
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#14It's a source of shame to me that Alan Turing was treated so appallingly during his lifetime; and that Bletchley Park has had to struggle for years to preserve important history.
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#15If you are into this sort of thing, I highly recommend The Codebreakers by David Kahn. Fascinating history of cryptography with good coverage of the WWII era.
I don't believe that book covers Lorenz.
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#16It's a source of shame to me that Alan Turing was treated so appallingly during his lifetime; and that Bletchley Park has had to struggle for years to preserve important history.
I did my best on that: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/09/hello-john-its-gordon-brown.html
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#17I watched this last night and it was very good. Should have guessed that jgrahamc would post the link.
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#18Believe me when I say that this type of treatment happens all the time in the UK, some really amazing stuff is done here and generally there is no recognition whatsoever or classified the moment they are churned out. I think it has a lot to do with our limited resources, so ingenuity has to shine through.
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#19While we're on the topic of lost heroes, it seems appropriate to mention the Biuro Szyfrów (the Polish Cypher Bureau) and in particular Marian Rejewski. By applying permutation group theory he managed to crack the Enigma in 1932. In 1939 this information was handed over to the British and French, allowing Bletchley Park to begin deciphering the Enigma which they had little success with up to this point [1].
The bureau also developed the bomba kryptologiczna (cryptological bomb), a precursor of Bletchley Park's bombe, a device used to expedite the breaking of Enigma codes [2].
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#20The flip side of this is the Allied codemaking operation, which was a hell of a thing as well.
Between Silk and Cyanide is an account by Leo Marks, the man in charge of that effort. It's a fantastic read.