Bombe decryption machine. Hand adjusting dials on a replica Bombe. Designed by mathematician Alan Turing,this device was used during World War 2 to decrypt German communications enciphered with the Enigma machine. The bombe was used to work out the Enigma settings in use each day,allowing messages to be deciphered. It required a short stretch of encrypted message with a known meaning (a "crib"). It was named after the Bomba,a machine used by Polish cryptographers to break simple variants of Enigma before the war. Photographed at Bletchley Park,England,the original site of the Allied codebreaking effort | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / King-Holmes, James |
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