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    The bomba, or bomba kryptologiczna (Polish for "bomb" or "cryptologic bomb"), was a special-purpose machine designed around October 1938 by Polish Cipher...
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  • bomba ("King Bomb") Bomba (cryptography), the Polish device for breaking the Enigma cryptographic machine Bomba (genre), a Filipino film genre Bomba rice...
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  • cryptosystem • Bomba (cryptography) • Bombe • Book cipher • Books on cryptography • Boomerang attack • Boris Hagelin • Bouncy Castle (cryptography) • Broadcast...
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  • Cryptography was used extensively during World War II because of the importance of radio communication and the ease of radio interception. The nations...
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    is used to breach cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages, even if the cryptographic key is unknown. In...
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    broke the Enigma cipher, including Jerzy Różycki, opened in Poznań. Bomba (cryptography) Enigma machine List of cryptographers List of Polish mathematicians...
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    chief engineer Harold Keen. After the war, interrogation of German cryptographic personnel led to the conclusion that German cryptanalysts understood...
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    United States Naval Computing Machine Laboratory (category History of cryptography)
    in January 2008. Cryptanalysis of the Enigma Bomba (cryptography) Bombe Bletchley Park Ultra (cryptography) History of the Bombe Project (US Navy memo...
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    Cryptanalytic computer (category Cryptography stubs)
    computer farms and such is doubtful but remains publicly unknown. Bomba (cryptography) Bombe Colossus computer Deep crack FROSTBURG IBM 7950 Harvest Gladwin...
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    electromechanical cryptologic bomba (invented by Rejewski) to search for rotor settings. In 1938 the Poles had six bomby (plural of bomba), but when that year...
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  • Cipher Bureau (Poland) (category Cryptography organizations)
    General Staff's Second Department's unit charged with SIGINT and both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptanalysis (the study of ciphers...
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  • In cryptography, the clock was a method devised by Polish mathematician-cryptologist Jerzy Różycki, at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, to facilitate...
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  • The Imitation Game (category Fiction about cryptography)
    Developing a friendship with Christopher Morcom, who sparks his interest in cryptography, he soon develops romantic feelings. However, Christopher shortly dies...
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  • Army and Air Force Enigma ciphers. Polish cryptanalysts had developed the bomba, an electromechanical device for finding the Enigma settings used by German...
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    Cryptanalysis of the Enigma (category History of cryptography)
    three stages, defined somewhat differently in that era than in modern cryptography. First, there is the identification of the system in use, in this case...
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  • he became Chief Engineer. A machine called the cryptologic bomb (Polish: bomba kryptologiczna) had been produced by the Polish codebreakers in their successful...
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    book by French colonel Marcel Givierge [fr], Cours de cryptographie (Cryptography Course). Rejewski and fellow students Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki...
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    Zygalski sheets (category Cryptographic attacks)
    though the Herivel tip could still be used. Cryptanalysis of the Enigma Bomba ("cryptologic bomb"): machine designed about October 1938 by Marian Rejewski...
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    breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma...
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    bombes. The British bombe was developed from a device known as the "bomba" (Polish: bomba kryptologiczna), which had been designed in Poland at the Biuro...
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  • Card catalog (cryptology) (category History of cryptography)
    The card catalog, or "catalog of characteristics," in cryptography, was a system designed by Polish Cipher Bureau mathematician-cryptologist Marian Rejewski...
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    September 2016). "Looking for Liberland". Politico. "Liberland, medijska bomba koja zabavlja stanovnike 'države'". Al Jazeera Balkans. 23 April 2015. Gajic...
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    Hut 8 (category Cryptography organizations)
    ISBN 978-0470465899 Briggs (2011) p.52 Alexander, C. Hugh O'D. (c. 1945), Cryptographic History of Work on the German Naval Enigma, The National Archives, Kew...
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  • machine. However, Rejewski invented the electromechanical "cryptologic bomba", a machine that greatly increased the efficiency of the three cryptologists'...
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    vodka products and objects with superlative characteristics, like the Tsar Bomba, the AK-47, and the Typhoon-class submarine scientific and medical discoveries...
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    Polish Enigma double (category History of cryptography)
    rotors Breaking Enigma Polish Cipher Bureau Doubles Grill Clock Cyclometer Bomba Zygalski sheets Bletchley Park Banburismus Herivel tip Crib Bombe Hut 3...
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  • Banburismus (category Cryptographic attacks)
    on 26 April 1940. The Germans did not have time to destroy all their cryptographic documents, and the captured material revealed the precise form of the...
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    Hut 3 (category Cryptography organizations)
    rotors Breaking Enigma Polish Cipher Bureau Doubles Grill Clock Cyclometer Bomba Zygalski sheets Bletchley Park Banburismus Herivel tip Crib Bombe Hut 3...
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    Hut 6 (category Cryptography organizations)
    rotors Breaking Enigma Polish Cipher Bureau Doubles Grill Clock Cyclometer Bomba Zygalski sheets Bletchley Park Banburismus Herivel tip Crib Bombe Hut 3...
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  • "Wayback Machine" (PDF). www.elektrolanddefence.com. "ElektroLand Patlayıcı ve Bomba İmha Robotları". Millisavunma.com (in Turkish). 9 December 2020. Retrieved...
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