AFAIKthe Polish people actually broke the engima code..
They've probably stolen teh German coding machine, cause I cant find any other explanation of how could have they haxx0red the damn thing.
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Tue 31 May 2005, 18:05,
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They've probably stolen teh German coding machine, cause I cant find any other explanation of how could have they haxx0red the damn thing.
my understanding......is that the Poles did most of the groundwork, including obtaining info on the machine from Germans as well as reverse engineering an encoding unit (the three wheeled one), and then the Bletchley lot refined all that and cracked the algorithm wide open, and also automated the procedures so messages could be read in a timely manner rather than weeks later.
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Tue 31 May 2005, 19:19,
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alsothe first captured working enigma machine was captured from a german u-boat which surrendered to a british destroyer after being depth-charged, which combined with the information from the poles meant the bletchely park lot put everything together and cracked the algorithm.
The story was then anally raped by the yanks and turned into "U-571" whereby lots of action was involved on the americans behalf to capture it, rather than the much less thrilling real life *splash* *bang* *surface* "Ve surrender".
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Wed 1 Jun 2005, 1:01,
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The story was then anally raped by the yanks and turned into "U-571" whereby lots of action was involved on the americans behalf to capture it, rather than the much less thrilling real life *splash* *bang* *surface* "Ve surrender".