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Cargando... The Secrets of Station X: The Fight to Break the Enigma Cypher (Dialogue Espionage Classics)por Michael Smith
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When the British military commandeered Bletchley Park in 1939 no one would have guessed that by 1945 its inmates would have contributed decisively to the Allied war effort. A melting pot of Oxbridge dons and maverick oddballs worked night and day at Station X to decode the Enigma cypher used by the Germans for high-level communications. That they succeeded, changing the course of the war, is testament to an indomitable spirit that wrenched British intelligence into the modern age, as World War II segued into the Cold War. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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As you can guess, there is no lack of stories to tell, or is there? It seems the British security was so successful that few knows what was going on and by now most of the people that worked there has died. The British let the Americans take the credit for most of the accomplishments while they returned to their post-war jobs.
There are people here that could probably fill books but are just sidenotes. There are inter-country and inter-department disputes. There are love stories and love children. There are brilliant minds in crazy people's bodies. All this are touched but never studied in depth. Because of lack of materials or because of lack of space I don't know.
Still, this is the best book I've read about what was going on at Station X (where X is the roman numeral 10 I now know), i.e. Bletchley Park.
One thing that struck me because it's still true is that all the theoretically safe cryptos were broken because they were used the wrong way. Because the text in them could be predicted or because the operator leaked information. For instance the German operator that sent a message of just LLLLLLLL....LLL. This is still true with todays online crypto. In theory they are safe but sometimes there is that one bug in the implementation that means that an implementation has 65000 different keys instead of billions of them.
The successful secrecy is another thing to remember. When you have broken a crypto that everyone uses, the last thing you want is for anyone to know about it. So if cryptos today are broken, they will not use it to charge someone that has killed 2 people in a shootout. It will be used for the big things. War. Diplomacy. ( )