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ahaley@eoe.co.uk (Andrew Haley) writes:
>Does anyone know of any technical description in the open literature
>of the work done at Bletchley Park during WW2?  There doesn't seem to
>be much information in Kahn's _Codebreakers_, but as that was
>published in 1967 I'm not very surprised.

      Read "Turing - The Enigma" for a biography of Turing and a general
discussion of life and work at Bletchley Park.  "Ultra Goes to War"
and "The Ultra Secret" discuss the military implications.  If you can
find it, "Modern Machine Cryptography" describes exactly how the work
at Bletchley Park was done, with photos of the gear and BASIC programs
so you can simulate a bombe.  I've heard that a bombe has been shown
at the Smithsonian (it may be in storage at the moment; they have far
more stuff than museum space).

      There's a movie deal in this somewhere.

					John Nagle

ps:   No, I'm not going to look up the authors and publishers for people.