On a totally pointless "asides" - I used to attend a music school in Bletchley on weekends when I was a wee lad. ( of course had no idea of bletchely part then - in fact I believe it was an official secret I existed/had existed at that time in the 70s )
On 15/9/06 13:03, "Robert Woodhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Enigma was a Bletchly Park thing and kept quiet til after the >> war was over. > > Enigma was the name of the German electromechanical encryption > devices that Bletchly Park succeeded in cracking. > > Once they had figured out how to crack the Enigma code (a process > that was much aided by the fact that the Germans were very fond of > rules, so stuff like weather reports would be transmitted at the same > time each day from the same place using the same message headers), > two types of machines, the Bombes and Colossus, were built to speed > up the process of finding the decryption keys. > > http://www.nationalcodescentre.org/content/machines.rhtm > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives of this list here: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
