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Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the Hollywood movie of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which cracked the codes used to... [24 Jul 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 German Enigma machine. [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. Bletchley Park was the secret home to Britain's top... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo It was used to crack Nazi codes in the World War II and was one of the world's first programmable computers. One of the world's first digital computers creaked into life again this month as Bletchley Park's code-cracking Colossus began running for... [29 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet An example of this is the work that went on at Bletchley Park to decipher Nazi messages during World War II and one of Bletchley's machines from that era recently came back to life (click here for Bletchley photos) to start cracking codes again. [28 Nov 2007]
Photos: Colossus gets cracking after 60 years
Photo It is kept in its original location at Bletchley Park, where it cracked Nazi codes during World War II and played a key role in the Allied victory. It is now being used to crack new messages enciphered using the same system employed by the German... [16 Nov 2007]
Cryptography and the Internet
White Paper Cryptography,the art and science of secret codes, has evolved dramatically over the centuries,especially since World War II. For most of their history, codes have relied on sharing secrets between small groups of people who needed to communicate... [24 Feb 2004]
Cryptography is Not the Ultimate Solution
White Paper Cryptography and the breaking of codes were critical factors in the naval, air and sea battles of World War II.Older cryptographic engines, like the Enigma, relied on the use of symmetric key cryptography: both the sender and the receiver used... [24 Feb 2004]
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