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Re:Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park by mrzasa on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @07:34AM (#5779334)
Don't forget about people who were breakine enigma 'before it was cool', and they succeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_%28cryptography%29, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski.
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Re:Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park by jgrahamc on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @07:40AM (#5779347)
True, but this story has nothing to do with Engima.
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Re:Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park by hetman on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @12:08PM (#5780838)
Not entirely. The article does make some inaccurate claims about the cracking of the Enigma.
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Re:Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park by willvarfar on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:04AM (#5779696)
Can you please clarify what you mean?
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Re:Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park by ColinWright on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @09:30AM (#5779866)
The story about Bill Tutte has nothing to do with Enigma. Yes, Bill Tutte worked at Bletchley, and so did the code breakers who worked on Enigma.

But Tutte worked on Lorenz, and this story is about Tutte and his work, and hence this story is not about Enigma.

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Re:Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park by munin on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @11:15AM (#5780494)
while not Enigma related, Marian Rejewski and his colleagues, if I remember right, reconstructed physical Enigma (pre-war, 3 wheel) machines only from analysis of encrypted traffic, beating the French and English mathematicians working on the "enigma problem". it was pretty big and IMO comparable to Tuttes successes with Lorenz, it's annoying that history forgets Rejewski and his contributions so quickly.
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Re:Bill Tutte – The Lesser Known Codebreaker of Bletchley Park by hetman on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @11:56AM (#5780739)
More accurately, the British and French had not managed to make any progress decrypting the Enigma until the work of Rajewski and the Biuro Szyfrów was handed over to them due to the shifting political situation.
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