Britain's Salvation:
Cryptography at Bletchley Park
In the beginning of World War II, Britain set up an intelligence agency on the outskirts of London to be used as the center of intelligence operations during Britain's battle against Germany. The agency consisted of a group of small houses, dubbed "huts", within a large estate called Bletchley Park (Kahn 32). Here Britain's best scientists, teachers, chess champions and other great minds stayed for the majority of the war obtaining information that would help Britain win (Hinsley 4). The main focus of Bletchley Park was cryptography, the decryption of enemy transmissions. In the beginning of the war a new encoding system had been developed by Germany making it nearly impossible for Britain to decrypt intercepted messages. Using new technology and Britain's greatest minds, Britain was able to decode messages from the Germans, Japanese, and Italians. This breakthrough eventually led to the defeat of Germany in World War II.......

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Title: Britain's Salvation: Cryptography At Bletchly Park
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