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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Enigma machine

In this Thursday, June 21, 2018 file photo, Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with his Polish counterpart Jacek Czaputowicz in Warsaw, Poland. Poland is reviving plans to reconstruct a historic Warsaw palace where the German Enigma machine codes were first cracked in 1932 and which Nazi German occupying forces blew up in 1944, it was announced Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)
July 8, 2021, 12:46 am
Poland to rebuild historic palace where Nazi Enigma machine first cracked
Reconstruction of Saski Palace, blown up by Nazis when they leveled Warsaw, has been planned for years to symbolize city’s rebirth
By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
British infantrymen advance through the battlefield at El-Alamein in October 1942. (Sgt. Len Chetwyn/No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit/Wikimedia)
March 20, 2021, 4:04 am
New book deciphers forgotten intel war that kept the Nazis from the Holy Land
American-Israeli author Gershom Gorenberg’s deeply researched tome serves as a corrective, bringing long-overlooked history of the North Africa campaign in World War II to the fore
By Judah Ari Gross
An enigma cipher machine found in the Baltic Sea in front of the archaeological office of German federal state Schleswig-Holstein in Schleswig, Germany, December 4, 2020. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP, File)
December 19, 2020, 2:51 am
Divers stumble upon rare Nazi Enigma machine at bottom of Baltic Sea
Team uncovers coding cipher off Germany’s coast while searching for abandoned fishing nets; device was probably thrown off warship at end of World War II
By AFP and ToI Staff
Final communications on the German Brown network, from May 1945 (GCHQ)
May 9, 2020, 10:06 am
‘Closing down forever’: Britain reveals Nazi Germany’s final decoded message
To mark 75 years since VE Day, UK releases content of last communications issued on a secret German network on May 7, 1945, which were intercepted by Bletchley Park codebreakers
By ToI Staff and AFP
An Enigma machine on display at Bletchley Park in the UK. (CC BY SA Flickr/Tim Gage)
January 3, 2017, 10:27 am
UK bank to secure credit cards using Nazi technology
Barclays will protect transactions with shifting code generator based on Enigma, which encrypted German messages in WWII
By ToI Staff
German Lorenz cipher machine used for sending coded messages during WWII (CC BY Timitrius/Flickr)
May 29, 2016, 7:19 pm
German WWII coding machine found on eBay
Discovered in a shed and sold for £10, device was used by Hitler to send encrypted messages to his generals
By AFP
An Enigma machine on display at Bletchley Park in the UK. (CC BY SA Flickr/Tim Gage)
July 11, 2015, 10:42 am
Nazi Enigma machine up for auction
Rare World War II encoding apparatus to go under the hammer in London, where it is expected to fetch over $100,000
By ToI Staff
Benedict Cumberbatch in 'The Imitation Game' as Alan Turing, the man chiefly responsible for cracking the vaunted Enigma code used by the Germans in World War II. (courtesy)
November 27, 2014, 12:27 am
Flick on Nazi-thwarting genius Turing passes likeability test
Benedict Cumberbatch shines as the strange codebreaker who was persecuted post-war for indecency
By Jocelyn Noveck
British mathematician Alan Turing. (screen capture: Youtube/The Telegraph)
December 24, 2013, 6:58 pm
UK finally pardons WWII codebreaker Alan Turing
The late brilliant mathematician who helped crack Nazi’s Enigma machine was prosecuted for gay relationships
By Raphael Satter
An Enigma machine on display at Bletchley Park in the UK. (CC BY SA Flickr/Tim Gage)
October 13, 2013, 3:06 pm
Nazi ‘Enigma’ machine up for sale
The IDF is also a former user of the iconic encryption devices that Britain cracked during World War II
By AP and ToI Staff
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