Computerphile

Fishy Codes: Bletchley's Other Secret

2015 • E45    Jul 1, 2015    16m
Hitler's High Command didn't use Enigma, they used a faster system called Lorenz, but when Allied forces first encountered it, they had no idea what it was and code-named it 'Tunny' (Tuna). Professor Brailsford explains why this relates to the early days of Computer Science

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