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Bletchley Park WWII archive to go online
Topic Started: Jun 6 2010, 09:02 PM (600 Views)
jdege
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Bletchley Park WWII archive to go online

By Dhruti Shah
BBC News

Millions of documents stored at the World War II code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, are set to be digitised and made available online.

Electronics company Hewlett-Packard has donated a number of scanners to the centre in Milton Keynes so volunteers can begin the ground-breaking task.

Many of the records at the once-secret centre have not been touched for years.

During the war, it was home to more than 10,000 men and women who decoded encrypted German messages.

The centre hopes that once the work starts, previously untold stories about the role Bletchley Park played in the war, will be revealed.

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This is great news. This will hopefully spawn many historical and cryptographic research projects. There's an advantage to living 60-70 years after a major war <g>.

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Interesting to historians, yes. To modern cryptographers, not so much since everything has moved away from analog and/or cipher machines. To hobbyists, assuredly, but the wonders of Bletchley Park were the inspirations of a few and the thousands of intercepts they had to work with. Despite this, the work performed was immense and the people who worked there were amazing. It does however give the false sense that anyone can do it or that past ciphers that are considered unsecure should be easily solvable by the majority. I completely agree with the effort but wonder if troop movements or logistic communications comprise the bulk of the saved files?
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