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No mention of Turing and Bletchley park cracking the Enigma code?
by zandorg 18y ago
No mention of Turing and Bletchley park cracking the Enigma code?
- Retric 18y agoMy understanding was the original Enigma code was cracked because we received photographs of it's inner workings from 2 polish mathematicians. Who showed up in England having worked out how to decode the messages. Alan Turing refined their work, designed a system to do the math, and helped keep up with the Germans who changed the Enigma's design, but I don't think he really deserves the credit for "cracking the code."
- rjurney 18y agoThere wouldn't be, since that relates to submarines and not air defense, and he is talking about the allied bombing campaigns and microwave device manufacturing as a catalyst to silicon valley's development. Enigma was a naval code and is unrelated to silicon valley's history.