I have been fascinated by "code breakers" ever since movies
and books came out with their super heroic action stories.
This morning,
Sundae's post about Alan Turing set me off on internet surfing
to find out how he and 400 Wrens (and a lot of other people)
were
actually able to break the German Enigma codes
... with pencil and paper and a few ingeniously designed mechanical bombes.
This Wiki article about
BOMBE is close enough to layman's language to be "decipherable".
Here is a teaser:
Quote:
Quote:
A graph of the letters of a crib and ciphertext expressed
as a graph to provide a menu which specifies how to set up a bombe run.
This example is somewhat unusual in that it contains as many as three loops.
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