> Last night on PBS I watched a program about the secret code breakers of
> WW2 in Britain..

> With only the scrambled transmissions of Nazi communications they were
> able to "de-duce" not only the message but the machine that scrambled
> the text! They built one based on sheer brain power of asking what
> would it take to secure text and portray it in this manor..
> They "saw" the un-seen.. by looking not at the confusion,
> but at the surrounding  structure that did not change.

They allies had the nazis code machine, called the enigma machine.  The
Poles and French had one each.  The Poles destroyed theirs as the Nazis were
invading Poland.  The French smuggled theirs to England.

The Movie about the U-Boat 501 was about this.

KLP

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