[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[ShadowAce]

[SuzyQue]

‘Tis an enigma.

[null and void]

Because Alan Turing was gay?

[dfwgator]

The Polish Cipher Bureau deserves the credit from breaking the Enigma codes.

[steelyourfaith]

The Ultra Secret (~1975) by Fredrick W. Winterbotham, is a good read on the Enigma decryption.

[GOPJ]

Good for Google - a project worthy of them...

[agere_contra]

Enigma was broken at Bletchely - and so was its big bad brother Lorentz which made Enigma look like a rubix cube.

The effort to defeat Lorentz required the construction of the first programmable computer "Colossus" by an engineer named Tommy Flowers.

[Peter Libra]

Your post brought back many memories for me. Finished conscription at 20 years old and had been trained as morse operator in the Royal Signals. My home town's main employer was a massive communications centre. Well known to Soviet intelligence, because a married couple were set up in a small street. The famous Krogers, sellers of used books; had clandestine radio equipment in the basement. Spying for Russia,

, I was sent to Bletchley Park about 40 miles away. This as a very low level radio operator. I did six months training there. They told us we could get ten years durance vile, for informing anyone as to what we did. The embargo was lifted ten years ago.

The place was a going concern all through the 1950's and longer. I saw the late Johnny Cash being interviewed by Larry King. He was asked what he did in the American Airforce.

"High speed intercept morse operator"

Johnny put the finger on it. Still feel a bit squeamish about the exact details even yet. Ok they were watching the Ruskies, I got sent up to remote North Scotland to a radio station, The shift work was brutal. Lasted nearly two years.

Know that once fine building well. Post office trained hundreds of young women at the facility. Glad to see the concern of old friend Google.

[rmlew]

I wish they would spend 1/2 of that 20% of their time fixing the poor performance and silly interface failings of Android.