Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers /

Shrouded in secrecy until very recently, Colossus was the world's first fully-functioning electronic computer, built during the Second World War and used at Bletchley Park to crack the codes of high-level Nazi communications. This book contains fascinating accounts of Colossus, of code-breaking...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Copeland, B. Jack, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Temas:
1939-1945
Lorenz cipher system.
World War, 1939-1945 > Cryptography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Electronic intelligence > Great Britain.
Cryptography > Germany > History.
Cryptography > Great Britain > History.
Lorenz (Machine à chiffrer)
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Cryptographie.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Renseignement électronique > Grande-Bretagne.
Cryptographie > Allemagne > Histoire.
Cryptographie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Cryptography
Electronic intelligence
Lorenz cipher system
Geheimschrift.
Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Codes.
Germany
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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 [and others]
  • 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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