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Re: mechanical workings of Enigma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew McEwen Mason)
Tue Apr 1 21:05:16 1997
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 16:19:34 -0800
From: Andrew McEwen Mason <andrew@knowledge.co.nz>
To: perry@piermont.com
CC: cryptography@c2.net
I'm not sure if I'm saying what everyone knows already, but it may be of
interest, apropos of Enigma et al, that Tony Sale of the Computer
Conservation Society in the UK has developed a working replica of the
Colossus computer, which is installed at Bletchley Park. BP is open to
visitors, for anyone visiting UK. See more at
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/CCC/BPark.
The CCS is a co-operative venture between the British Computer Society
and the London Science Museum. Its home page is at
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/.
Apparently Tony is now working on reconstructing a Turing Bombe. He has
written a simulator that takes, on a 100MHz Pentium, 18 hours to do what
the original Bombe did in 15 minutes.....
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