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Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. This shows paper tape - punched with... [27 Mar 2008]
Editor's Blog: Time for 'listed' computers?
Comment Ancient even.silicon.com has been to visit Bletchley Park, home of the World War II codebreakers and Colossus - the world's first electronic codebreaking machine - which smashed the codes used by the... [20 Mar 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo The original Colossus machine was built using more than 1,500 valves by Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers to speed up the breaking of German codes - in particular that of the Lorenz cipher. The very... [18 Mar 2008]
German beats Colossus codecracking computer
News In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the National Museum of Computing last week, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in Germany. [19 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo The rebuilt Colossus will be put to work on intercepted radio messages transmitted by radio amateurs in Paderborn, Germany, which have been scrambled by a machine used by the German high command in wartime. [16 Nov 2007]
Computers: the British Answer to the German Enigma Machines
White Paper This paper shows that the encryption capabilities of the Third Reich’s Enigma machine prompted British cryptanalysts to develop the world’s first programmable computer, called Colossus. Using code-breaking databases... [25 Feb 2004]
