• Media type: Book
  • Title: Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Parkś codebreaking computers
  • Contributor: Copeland, Brian Jack [Hrsg.]
  • imprint: Oxford; New York, NY [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006
  • Issue: 1. publ.
  • Extent: XVI, 462, [16] S; Ill., Tab; 24cm
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 019284055X; 9780192840554
  • RVK notation: ST 276 : Datensicherung (physik.) und angewandte Kryptographie, Computerviren
  • Keywords: Großbritannien > Computer > Geschichte 1943
    Bletchley Park > Computer > Enigma > Dechiffrierung > Geschichte 1943-1945
    Großbritannien > Kryptologie > Computer > Zweiter Weltkrieg > Geschichte 1943
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh -- How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith -- The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland -- Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky -- Machine against machine / Jack Copeland -- D-Day at Bletchley Park / Thomas H. Flowers -- Intercept! / Jack Copeland -- Colossus / Thomas H. Flowers -- Colossus and the rise of the modern computer / Jack Copeland -- The PC user's guide to Colossus / Benjamin Wells -- Of men and machines / Brian Randell -- The Colossus rebuild / Tony Sale -- Mr. Newman's section / Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey ... [et al.] -- Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman -- Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton -- From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Jack Good -- Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie -- Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts -- Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins -- An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie -- The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley -- Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... [et al.] -- The British Tunny machine / Gil Hayward -- How Colossus was built and operated : one of its engineers reveals its secrets / Harry Fensom -- Bletchley Park's Sturgeon : the Fish that laid no eggs / Frode Weierud -- German teleprinter traffic and Swedish wartime intelligence / Craig McKay

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