Code-breaker's code; Mailbag.I AM writing to explain that the word code-breaker relates to the people who worked at Bletchley Park (body, history) Bletchley Park - A country house and grounds some 50 miles North of London, England, where highly secret work deciphering intercepted German military radio messages was carried out during World War Two. trying to break down the codes from the German ENIGMA machine
v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. people. I was a coder who had the means to hand to encode and decode (1) To convert coded data back into its original form. Contrast with encode. (2) Same as decrypt. See cryptography. (cryptography) decode - To apply decryption. the TYPEX machine messages. The TYPEX was a much updated version of the ENIGMA. The reason I was decoding the very top secret messages, which would normally be sent naval cypher See cipher. to be decoded by an officer, was because the C in C was present in the coding office, having been previously warned about it coming, and the signal's officer was making a hash of trying to work the machine. C in C told him 'move over and let the lad get on with it'. I carried on with subsequent messages. The photo of the supposed coding machine pictured in the article is of one in a museum. Personally I think it must be in a knackers yard because it has had nearly everything removed. The outer shell is missing as are typewriter printing arms which were situated in the two round drums at each side. The electrical and mechanical parts and the box which contained the brains situated on top are also missing. P W THORNTON Marsh |
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