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In an interview in the BBC Special about Bletchley Park 'The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs' David Balme is interviewed and the focus is on the bigram tables t
by vic-traill 11y ago
In an interview in the BBC Special about Bletchley Park 'The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs' David Balme is interviewed and the focus is on the bigram tables that he captured intact. There is no mention of actually capturing an Enigma machine. This is not to say that one wasn't included in the capture of U110.
Rather, I get the sense that the capture of the bigram tables was a Big Thing, possibly more important than the acquisition of a physical Enigma in the breaking of the Naval Enigma code, as Turing had engineered much of the machine conceptually.
N.B. Would post the link to the BBC special - it's part 2 of 4, and quite interesting - but I don't have a strong enough sense of what is netiquette in the posting of links yet.