On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 07:47:04 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote:

> But just think how much a single computer would have been worth to the code
> breakers at Bletchley Park, or in the US Navy, during WW II. How many
> electromechanical "bombes" would it have replaced, or how much faster would
> solutions have popped out? And how many different crypto systems would have
> been broken?

Have you heard of Collosus?  The computer that they *did* have, and which was used for cracking cyphers 
created by Lorenz machines.  It's shown towards the bottom of this page: 
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/page.cfm?pageid=206

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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