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Bletchley Park Code Breakers - Breaking Lorenz Part 3

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In final part of his walk-through, John Whetter from Bletchley Park, explains the use of Tunney in deciphering the German Lorenz code.

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Posted by Lanky123 - Fri 07 Aug 2009 00:19
Thanks for this little series. Really interesting and quite incredible the ingenuity and brainpower that must have been present.
Posted by Nick - Fri 07 Aug 2009 17:33
What I think is incredible, besides them figuring out how to re-build Colossus, is the chap who figured out what Lorenz was just from the two long messages they intercepted… how much brainpower does that take??? :)
Posted by Lanky123 - Sat 08 Aug 2009 01:08
Agreed. And presumably with pencil and paper as well.:crazy: I'd imagine it would be no easy task to write a computer program to work that sort of thing out nowadays, but to sit down and just figure it out…

After this little taster I'm going to have to go and have a visit so thanks again for the videos. :)