National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe

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Message 13663 - Posted: 20 Sep 2018, 5:40:35 UTC

National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe
Turing-Welchman machine to do its thing – with original wartime operator present

The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is going to fire up its replica Enigma code-breaker to decrypt encoded messages sent from Poland – with an original wartime Bombe operator supervising the process.

The British museum's Bombe replica, recently moved into the original Block H building that housed the wartime Bombes, is a fully functional reproduction of the machines that broke Nazi Germany's Enigma ciphers during the Second World War.


Interested folk can watch the challenge live from around 0830 BST on Friday on the World Computing Congress website.

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