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By John Leyden 21 Sep 2018 

 

 

The Bombe team at The National Museum Of Computing (TNMOC) has succeeded in breaking an Enigma-encrypted message in a live Poland-to-England demo.

 

The demonstration was described by TNMOC as a tribute to Polish cryptographers and wartime Bletchley Park staff.

 

The reconstructed Turing-Welchman Bombe at TNMOC in Bletchley Park found the settings and key needed to break an Enigma message. The techniques used were the same as those used by the WWII codebreakers.

 

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