Re: Turing documents at the National Archives

Y evaud <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.cryptography.bletchley-park
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> I remember that when Tony Sale gave a presentation on Colossus at the late
> lamented IEE a few years ago he - or a questioner from the audience -
> commented that some of BP's WW II work on statistics and algorithms were
> still rgarded as sensitive - and useful - enough to require protection.
> 
> RogerH> 

 

I'm wondering whether "HW25/38: Paper on statistics of repetitions by A M Turing" is concerned with his work on Banburismus. If that's the case then since quite a bit has been written on the method and that Friedman's work on the Index of Coincidence is already in the public domain it makes me both very curious - and very puzzled - about what GCHQ's chief mathematician can find in it that's still sensitive after sixty-odd years !

 

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