Bombe

In the history of cryptography, the bombe was an electromechanical device used by British and American cryptologists to help break German Enigma machine signals during World War II. The bombe was designed by Alan Turing, with an important refinement subsequently contributed by Gordon Welchman.

External links

• The Turing Bombe – what it was and how it worked by Graham Ellsbury
• Bombe rebuild project
• Tony Sale's description of the British bombe
• A bombe simulator (in Javascript)
• Enigma and the Turing Bombe by N. Shaylor, April 17, 1997. Includes a simulator (a Java applet and C)
• Solving the Enigma – History of the Cryptanalytic Bombe – NSA pamphlet
• The US Navy's Bombe exhibit

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