The Enigma cypher machine is these days well known, a lesser known WW2 German cypher machine was the Lorentz machine which generated encrypted teletype. The Colossus was the first programmable electronic computer and was specifically built to crack the Lorentz encryption.
This video describes how the cypher was cracked, and how they worked out the internals of the machine without ever seeing an actual machine.
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This video describes how the cypher was cracked, and how they worked out the internals of the machine without ever seeing an actual machine.
Colossus: The World's First Large-Scale Electronic Digital Computer - Part 5 | Bletchley Park
In the final part of our series on Colossus, Dr David Kenyon looks at the legacy of Colossus.Colossus, the world's first large-scale electronic digital compu...
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