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A Colossal Codebreaker
It was a cryptographic race... and the Nazis had taken the lead. After Bletchley codebreakers cracked the Lorenz cipher in 1941, Germany upped the ante, making it even more complex. Could Britain develop a machine to break it?
In 1943, a team at Bletchley unveiled Colossus. Created by telephone engineer Thomas Flowers, it was the first practical electronic digital information processor. |