Re: [math-fun] "Imitation Game" slanders Turing (Henry Baker)
The Soviets were using "unbreakable" 1-time pads that were never, ever to be used again (Chorus: well, hardly ever!). The amazing thing is that this reuse was discovered and enabled significant decrypts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project The BBC did a pretty decent documentary about Tommy Flowers, which used to be available on YouTube, but I wasn't able to readily find it again (the BBC apparently complained to YouTube about this). If you search hard enough, you may be able to find this video on the Internet somewhere, or perhaps on Netflix. It does seem that Flowers is getting screwed by cryptography twice: first during WWII, and now by DRM/DMCA! At 05:10 PM 11/20/2014, Warren D Smith wrote:
Plus, Cairncross (genuine spy) gave the USSR some decypts so they likely KNEW the UK had decryption capability for such machines ANYWAY!
In particular Tommy Flowers, their main computer designer/builder, was... well, I bet you'd never heard of him. You've heard of guys like Eckert & Mauchly who probably were a lot lesser.
Yes, I know of Tommy Flowers through that same documentary, if you mean the one detailing the collaboration between Bill Tutte and Tommy Flowers...? Sincerely, Adam P. Goucher
The BBC did a pretty decent documentary about Tommy Flowers, which used to be available on YouTube, but I wasn't able to readily find it again (the BBC apparently complained to YouTube about this).
In particular Tommy Flowers, their main computer designer/builder, was... well, I bet you'd never heard of him. You've heard of guys like Eckert & Mauchly who probably were a lot lesser.
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