ENIGMA
ENIGMA
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In the UK, Bletchley Park initially received transmissions from the listening stations (Y-stations) by dispatch rider, but this was later switched to teleprinter transmission.
A rotor machine, an electro-mechanical stream cipher device used for encrypting and decrypting messages.
During World War II, the estate housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers.
She was one of the leading female codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945.
Turing worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park, Britain’s codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. For a time he led Hut 8, the section that was responsible for German naval cryptanalysis.
Knowing the movements of armed forces on land, in the sky, above and below the oceans was vital in pre-emtping attacks and avoiding detection. The difference between victory and defeat.
