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Yeah. I'm sure Field Marshall Slim would have been just fine without the help of a handful of cryptography breakers (some homosexuals, some women) in little hu
by swagtricker 9y ago
Yeah. I'm sure Field Marshall Slim would have been just fine without the help of a handful of cryptography breakers (some homosexuals, some women) in little huts at Bletchley Park cracking the Enigma machine. No difference in being able to intercept and use Nazi communications for months on end without their knowledge. They pretty much had the Germans on the run at that point, right?
- Animats 9y agoBletchley was a huge industrial operation. They had several thousand people, including the outstations. The bombe hardware was built in quantity by the British Tabulating Machine Company and then by National Cash Register in Dayton, OH. The US cryptanalysis effort had units at Arlington Hall and Pearl Harbor, with buildings full of IBM tabulators and special-purpose hardware. The real innovation in WWII was scale. Cryptanalysis in WWI was a few people in Room 40 and didn't accomplish that much.