so turing was cracking the german enigma code, which was incredibly important. >> tell us about the enigma code. fascinating story. >> it is, and it is another story that was not known until well after the war because it was classified as secret. the germans had some elaborate codes that required machines, giant -- they looked like big typewriters with a lot of wires. in a stroke of luck some polish soldiers captured one of the german enigma machines, and that in itself was not enough to make it possible to crack the code that was a starting point. the big project was under way in england. alan taurine was one of several mathematicians' involved in the code breaking project, and he was the one who really did the most to solve the coach once and then continue solving it, construct machinery using electrical circuitry and vacuum tubes and a lot of mechanical gears to crack the code in real time. every day the germans would change the code and the brits with cracked the code again. it was incredibly important. i mean, it is arguable that this secret technological project did more to win the w

. >> host: tell us about the enigma code. >> another story that was not known until long after the board because it was classified as secret. the germans had elaborate code required machines, a lot of typewriters come in the enigma machines. with the stroke of luck some polish soldiers captured the enigma machine and that was not enough to make it possible to crack the code but it was a starting point*. and one of several mathematicians in the codebreaking project did the most to solve the code once then to continue solving it and construct machinery using electrical circuitry and vacuum tubes and mechanical gears to crack the code in realtime. every time the germans change the code the brits would crack the code again. it was incredibly important and arguable that this secret technological project did more to win the war for the allies and the manhattan project did with the atomic bomb. i believe the answer to that is i don't think it is arguable but it is true. >> host: end english could not have given away that they knew too much? hi did they avoid that problem? >> they had to be care

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