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    Marian Adam Rejewski (Polish: [ˈmarjan rɛˈjɛfskʲi] ; 16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed...
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  • ISSN 1730-6280 Rejewski, Marian; Woytak, Richard (1984b), A Conversation with Marian Rejewski Appendix B to Kozaczuk 1984, pp. 229–40 Rejewski, Marian (1984c)...
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    designed around October 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break German Enigma-machine ciphers. How the machine came to be...
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    was a cryptologic device designed, "probably in 1934 or 1935," by Marian Rejewski of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS-4), to catalog the...
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    other Axis powers. In December 1932 it was "broken" by mathematician Marian Rejewski at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, using mathematical permutation...
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    would allow a "female" to occur. Polish mathematician–cryptologist Marian Rejewski writes about how the perforated-sheets device was operated: When the...
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    Enigma rotor cipher machine. The Enigma double was one result of Marian Rejewski's remarkable achievement of determining the wirings of the Enigma's...
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    Poznań University alumni and Cipher Bureau cryptology-course graduates Marian Rejewski and Jerzy Różycki. Together they developed methods and equipment for...
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    The French passed the material to the Poles. Around December 1932, Marian Rejewski, a Polish mathematician and cryptologist at the Polish Cipher Bureau...
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    (1931–2020), Polish economist and politician Marian Oprea (born 1982), Romanian triple jumper Marian Rejewski (1905–1980), Polish mathematician and cryptologist...
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  • which was partly inspired by a design by the Polish cryptanalyst Marian Rejewski. Rejewski designed a machine in 1938, called bomba kryptologiczna, which...
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    wartime decrypting of German Enigma-machine ciphers by cryptologists Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski, and Jerzy Różycki. An extensive Polish intelligence...
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  • They were specialists of a different kind, of a different class. — Marian Rejewski Knox attended the second Polish–French–British conference, held on...
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    alumni and Cipher Bureau cryptology-course graduates Marian Rejewski and Henryk Zygalski. After Rejewski had reconstructed the German military Enigma machine...
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  • Krasicki, Bolesław Prus, Florian Znaniecki, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Marian Rejewski, and Władysław Kozaczuk, as well as the Polish–Lithuanian Constitution...
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    artificial valve created from materials taken from human corpses. Marian Rejewski: mathematician and cryptologist who reconstructed the sight-unseen...
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  • War II. The materials he provided facilitated Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski's reconstruction of the wiring in the Enigma's rotors and reflector;...
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    designed in Poland at the Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau) by cryptologist Marian Rejewski, who had been breaking German Enigma messages for the previous seven...
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  • great thinker. Berlin New York: Springer. p. 455. ISBN 3540200207. Marian Rejewski, "Summary of Our Methods for Reconstructing ENIGMA and Reconstructing...
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  • PURPLE JN-25 Cryptanalysis of the Enigma Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau) Marian Rejewski Jerzy Różycki Henryk Zygalski bomba Lacida Machine Arne Beurling Bletchley...
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  • 1930s. This version was broken by inspired mathematical insight by Marian Rejewski in Poland. As far as is publicly known, no messages protected by the...
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    find the cryptologists and get them out of Poland, but as Rejewski describes (see "Marian Rejewski"), they were in fact evacuated to Romania by the Polish...
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  • letters. The Polish codebreakers exploited this mistake in many ways. Marian Rejewski used the doubled key and some known daily keys obtained by a spy, to...
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    to the Enigma cipher machine and the three Polish cryptologists -- Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rozycki—who played a key role in its early...
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    Bydgoszcz Cathedral's façade Bydgoszcz Scientific Society Birthplace of Marian Rejewski Brda River in the city centre Former Polish Royal mint, now a museum...
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  • 31 V 1974", p. 214 (footnote 34) in Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski, ed. Marian Rejewski 1905–1980, Living with the Enigma secret, 1st ed, Bydgoszcz City Council...
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    Meredith Gardner Friedrich Kasiski Al-Kindi Dilly Knox Solomon Kullback Marian Rejewski Joseph Rochefort, whose contributions affected the outcome of the Battle...
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    chemist Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), composer and conductor Marian Rejewski, (1905–1980), mathematician and cryptologist Jerzy Różycki, (1909–1942)...
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  • statistical techniques to cryptanalysis and cipher development and in Marian Rejewski's initial break into the German Army's version of the Enigma system...
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    exactly when they have the same cycle type, was used by cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break the German Enigma cipher in turn of years 1932-1933. In mathematics...
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