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Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications.
  We have always been been intrigued by keeping secrets and uncovering the secrets of others, whether that’s childhood secret messages, or secrets and codebreaking of national importance. With a film, The Imitation Game, reprising the life of Alan Turing and his role in breaking the Nazi’s Enigma cipher of World War II, how does one codebreak, then and now?

  • Type:

    Newspaper Article

  • Date:

    24 November 2014

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Library of Congress:

    QA76 Computer software

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    005.8 Data security

Citation

Buchanan, W. J. (2014). Codebreaking has moved on since Turing’s day, with dangerous implications

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Keywords

Cybersecurity; code-breaking; ENIGMA; COLOSSUS; Compuer programming and software; information security; cryptography

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