Tagged 'Bletchley Park'
The Imitation Game: Fact and Fiction
To many of us in the technical community, the story of Alan Turing is well known; a tragedy of a tortured genius who saved a world that may well have killed him in return. With this new film, the s...
Papercraft Enigma
This has been doing the rounds on Twitter but I thought I’d show off my own attempt.UK security firm Franklin Heath have put together an Enigma machine made out of paper. This really goes to show t...
Why Ten Pairs?
As you may know, the German military made a significant addition to the original Enigma design by adding the plugboard, or steckerbrett. The board has twenty-six sockets, one for every letter in th...