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Bletchley Park had ten Colossi in 1944

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Sun Oct 1 12:46:00 2000

From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@wasabisystems.com>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: 01 Oct 2000 12:10:12 -0400
Message-ID: <8766ncmtjv.fsf@snark.piermont.com>


The British government is going to release a report on the "Colossus"
machines built at Bletchley Park, after 55 years of silence. It turns
out that they had ten of the things, and they were used to break
German codes used for communication between Berlin and military
commands. Really interesting stuff -- I hope the final report gets put
online when it becomes available because it is going to be neat
reading.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=003549412141223&rtmo=VP4uZ5Zx&atmo=tttttttd&pg=/et/00/9/7/ecfcol07.html

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