{"id":10545,"date":"2015-01-25T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T01:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=10545"},"modified":"2015-01-22T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T02:07:13","slug":"sunday-nerding-the-enigma-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2015\/01\/sunday-nerding-the-enigma-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Nerding: The Enigma Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent release of the film <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Imitation_Game\">The Imitation Game<\/a> about the life and times of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Turing\">Alan Turing<\/a>, the key scientist &#8211; (a mathematican) &#8211; in solving the problem of being able to quickly break the German <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enigma_machine\">enigma codes<\/a> of World War II, I thought it might be time to explain in simple terms what he really managed to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Too many people don&#8217;t really know.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G2_Q9FoD-oQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<br \/>\n<center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4V2bpZlqx8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>While the film has been criticised as distorting what really happened at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bletchley_Park\">Bletchley Park<\/a> during the war, the historical significance of the work should never be forgotten, and the work of everyone at Bletchley Park celebrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent release of the film The Imitation Game about the life and times of Alan Turing, the key scientist &#8211; (a mathematican) &#8211; in solving the problem of being able to quickly break the German enigma codes of World War II, I thought it might be time to explain in simple terms what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-10545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-sundaynerding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10550,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10545\/revisions\/10550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}