[3612] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: [aaa-list] Tommy Flowers, Engineer who cracked German
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BlueFlux)
Tue Nov 10 19:10:16 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 19:32:29 +0100
To: aaa-list@lists.netlink.co.uk, DC-Stuff <dc-stuff@dis.org>
From: BlueFlux <blueflux@EliteHackers.org>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.981109083829.12504D-100000@kizmiaz.dis.org>
If this refers to the ENIGMA codes used by the germans, im curious.
According to my material, it was a swedish mathematician who was first to
break the ENIGMA ciphers. So, does this article refer to the ENIGMA ciphers
or some other cipher? If it does refer to the ENIGMA codes, who was first
to decipher it? (sorry i dont have any more information about this swedish
mathematician, but I just cant find the video tape with the recording of
this specific documentary about him).
-BlueFlux
At 08:39 1998-11-09 -0800, William Knowles wrote:
>LONDON (November 8, 1998 3:51 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com)
>Tommy Flowers, who developed a pioneering computer that cracked
>German military codes in World War II, is dead at 92.
>
>Flowers died from heart failure at home in London on Oct. 28,
>his son Kenneth said Sunday.
>
>An engineering graduate of the University of London, Flowers
>joined the British Post Office, then responsible for all national
>communications, in the 1930s and experimented in electronic
>telephone transmissions.
>
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