BBC News articles : Colossus cracks codes once more

Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.cryptography.bletchley-park
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Thursday, 15 November 2007, 10:21 GMT

Colossus cracks codes once more
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By Mark Ward

Technology Correspondent, BBC News website

For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be 
cracking codes at Bletchley Park.

The machine is being put through its paces to mark the end of a 
project to rebuild the pioneering computer.

It will be used to crack messages enciphered using the same system 
employed by the German high command during World War II.

The Colossus will be pitted against modern PC technology which will 
also try to read the scrambled messages...../snip/


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094881.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7095081.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7091190.stm
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