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Who broke Engima -- the German encryption used during WWII? Polish mathematicians. Depends on who you want to credit I suppose. Such huge tasks are usually ac
by s_dev 2y ago
Who broke Engima -- the German encryption used during WWII?
Polish mathematicians.
Depends on who you want to credit I suppose. Such huge tasks are usually accomplished in bits by many people.
- Symbiote 2y agoThat one is a little different, as both Poland and the UK considered breaking the Enigma machine a state secret until the 1970s. That Polish mathematicians broke the codes, and shared this information with the British, is taught in the UK. My understanding (from school in England) is the British codebreakers' contribution was to scale up the scale of the codebreaking, by using lots of machines and their own mathematical innovations.