[GreenKeys] FW: Link to BBC News Article: Colossus cracks codes once more

[Mark T. Regan, K8MTR]

Thursday, 15 November 2007, 10:21 GMT 

Colossus cracks codes once more 
By Mark Ward 
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website 

For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park. 

The machine is being put through its paces to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. 

It will be used to crack messages enciphered using the same system employed by the German high command during World War II. 

The Colossus will be pitted against modern PC technology which will also try to read the scrambled messages.

The article is continued at...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094881.stm 


Mark Regan, K8MTR
CTO1 USNR-Ret. 1969-1991