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March 2010
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Bletchley Park

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Alan Turing is the father of computer science and contributed significantly to the WW2 effort, but his life came to a tragic end. Stefan Kopieczek explores his story.

Tags: cryptography : computer science : Turing Machine : Turing test : artificial intelligence : Enigma : Bletchley Park : halting problem


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In the first of two articles, Artur Ekert takes a tour through the history of codes and the prospects for truly unbreakable quantum cryptography.

Tags: Caesar shift cipher : substitution cipher : Enigma : Bletchley Park : scytale : frequency analysis : polyalphabetic cipher : one-time pad : Vernam cipher


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During the Second World War, the Allies' codebreakers worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the supposedly unbreakable Enigma code. Claire Ellis tells us about their heroic efforts, which historians believe shortened the war by two years.

Tags: Enigma : Bletchley Park : Alan Turing