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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Coventry. The Enigma cypher machine decrypts (under the code name ULTRA) were so sensitive that they were one of the last secrets of World War II that have been declassified. Even then, there's still some information that remains classified because it would divulge 'intelligence sources and methods" (i.e. expose a well-placed 'mole' inside an adversarial foreign government).
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Awww... Alan Turing *tears*.
Really though, he had a very interesting life and his Enigma machines were basically insturmental in the Allies winning WWII. AND... and a woman in computer science - the Enigma project was a great example of women's interacting with computers!
To be honest, the word around here is that no one has yet found a efficient method of breaking the current ecryption standards. There are brute force ways, but they are still slow and costly. The discovery of an efficient method of decomposing large numbers into their primes would of course, change that, which some people speculate would ruin the world economy. Fun stuff eh?