Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire is to be given

[gghc87]

This is great news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bu...rts/7937155.stm

[molemot]

Indeed it is...especially since it houses the reproduction "Colossus", the originals having been destroyed by order of Churchill himself at the conclusion of hostilities. They've even been having competitions, with some Germans transmitting signals coded on an authentic Enigma, and the Colossus trying to decode the signals as written down by morse code experts from the transmissions..in competition with GCHQ(!) and, indeed, anybody else who wants a go...and a modern PC based decoding solution won, iirc.

[Bibs]

I've read Enigma a few times now, it must have been amazing to see those geniuses in action and the work they did. Good news indeed

[esprit350]

great news, but Colossus was never used to break the enigma, that was done on the bombes. Colossus was used to break the Lorentz cipher used by the German High Command

[molemot]

Ooops...quite right, Howard. But the code challenges continue, with another one due this year I think...