Published on: 2025-07-13 04:25:50
In the 1930s and 40s, mathematician Alan Turing and other Allied cryptologists devoted monumental efforts to break the German encryption machine, the Enigma, which Nazis used to send secret messages during World War II. Today, however, modern computers and artificial intelligence could break the Enigma code without breaking a sweat, as reported by The Guardian. “Enigma wouldn’t stand up to modern computing and statistics,” Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer science at the University of
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Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, died on April 18 in Aspinwall, Pa. She was 104. Her death, in a Veterans Affairs hospice facility, was confirmed by her daughter Margaret Breines. A lover of puzzles and crosswords while growing up in Pittsburgh during the Great Depression, Mrs. Parsons deciphered German military messages that had been created by an Eni
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