10 Feb
2015
10 Feb
'15
10:19 a.m.
On 10/02/2015 17:18, Jon Elson wrote:
The US has just recently allowed declassifying what
NCR did to build a
higher speed Bombe (they give FULL credit to the Brits and Turing for
the design of the Bombe and the methods used to crack Enigma start
positions), and the massive operation for bulk cracking and decoding of
the full Enigma traffic. This was apparently done at Ft. Meade in
Maryland.
No, it wasn't. For a short while, the first two were operated at NCR in
Dayton where they were built, for testing and training but transferred
to Washington. At the time, Fort Meade was a PoW camp. It had nothing
to do with cryptography until well after the war.
--
Pete