Who Cracked the Enigma Code?
Alan Turing Was a Brilliant Mathematician. Born in London in 1912, He Studied at Both Cambridge and Princeton Universities. He Was Already Working Part-Time...
Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician. Born in London in 1912, he studied at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. He was already working part-time for the British Government's Code and Cypher School before the Second World War broke out.
What happened to the man who cracked the Enigma code?
Turing died in 1954, 16 days before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined his death as a suicide, but it has been noted that the known evidence is also consistent with accidental poisoning.
How did the Enigma code get cracked?
The German plugboard-equipped Enigma became Nazi Germany's principal crypto-system. It was broken by the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau in December 1932, with the aid of French-supplied intelligence material obtained from a German spy.
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