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    A Polish Enigma "double" was a machine produced by the Polish Biuro Szyfrów that replicated the German Enigma machine. The Enigma double was one result...
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    Australia. The Jozef Pilsudski Institute in London exhibited a rare Polish Enigma double assembled in France in 1940. In 2020, thanks to the support of the...
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  • another Polish Enigma double, a machine replicating the function of Nazi Germany's cipher machines Double, a former fraction of the Guernsey pound Double, a...
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    late July 1939 at a conference just south of Warsaw, the Polish Cipher Bureau shared its Enigma-breaking techniques and technology with the French and British...
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  • Enigma secret, BBC News, 20 July 2009 "Polish Enigma Double" Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine "The Enigma Code Breach," by Jan Bury Enigma Enigma...
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    Zygalski sheets (category Polish inventions)
    decrypt messages enciphered on German Enigma machines. The Zygalski-sheet apparatus takes its name from Polish Cipher Bureau mathematician–cryptologist...
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    1935," by Marian Rejewski of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS-4), to catalog the cycle structure of Enigma permutations, thereby facilitating...
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    Bomba (cryptography) (category Polish inventions)
    as the second three, Polish mathematician–cryptologist Marian Rejewski was able to determine the internal wiring of the Enigma machine and thus to reconstruct...
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    Marian Rejewski (category Enigma machine)
    Zygalski, working at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, developed techniques and equipment for decrypting the Enigma ciphers, even as the Germans...
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  • This article contains technical details about the rotors of the Enigma machine. Understanding the way the machine encrypts requires taking into account...
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    Bombe (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II. The US Navy and US...
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  • Dilly Knox (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    important role in the Polish–French–British meetings on the eve of the Second World War which disclosed Polish cryptanalysis of the Axis Enigma to the Allies...
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    increase in Polish decryption equipment, which they could not meet. On 25 July 1939, the Polish Cipher Bureau handed reconstructed Enigma machines and...
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    Henryk Zygalski (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    In 2021 the Enigma Cipher Centre, an educational and scientific institution dedicated to the Polish mathematicians who broke the Enigma cipher, including...
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  • by Polish Cipher Bureau mathematician-cryptologist Marian Rejewski, and first completed about 1935 or 1936, to facilitate decrypting German Enigma ciphers...
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  • PC Bruno (category Enigma machine)
    Italian ciphers. The Polish group was led by Lt. Col. Gwido Langer and included the mathematicians who had been breaking Enigma for nearly seven years...
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  • using an enigma machine, with the simple codes broken it helped break the daily enigma code. The Abwehr used a different version of Enigma machines,...
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  • Known-plaintext attack (category Enigma machine)
    of the Enigma Kiss (cryptanalysis) PC Bruno Polish Cipher Bureau Ultra (cryptography) Gordon Welchman, The Hut Six Story: Breaking the Enigma Codes, p...
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  • Grill (cryptology) (category Articles containing Polish-language text)
    mathematician-cryptologists of the Polish Cipher Bureau (Biuro Szyfrów) in decrypting German Enigma machine ciphers. The Enigma rotor cipher machine changes...
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  • Peter Twinn (section Enigma)
    British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, having obtained vital information from Polish cryptanalysts in July 1939. Twinn said that...
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  • front of the stage spelled "Enigma Publius". During a televised concert at Earls Court, London, in October 1994, the word "enigma" was projected in large...
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  • Enigma, 1984, p. 134–35. Kozaczuk, Enigma, 1984, p. 128. Kozaczuk, Enigma, 1984, p. 139. Kozaczuk, Enigma, 1984, p. 156. Bertrand, Gustave, Enigma ou...
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    German Enigma ciphers. Poland's Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau, operated by the Polish General Staff) gave the British and French an Enigma double, each...
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  • Christopher Kasparek (category American people of Polish descent)
    well as the Polish–Lithuanian Constitution of 3 May 1791. He has published papers of his own on the history of the World War II era; Enigma decryption;...
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  • devised by Polish mathematician-cryptologist Jerzy Różycki, at the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, to facilitate decrypting German Enigma ciphers....
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    encrypt communications between units at the division level. These were the Enigma machine, the teleprinter cipher attachment (Lorenz cipher), and the cipher...
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    Wacław Sierpiński (category CS1 Polish-language sources (pl))
    Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (Polish: [ˈvat͡swaf fraɲˈt͡ɕiʂɛk ɕɛrˈpij̃skʲi] ; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known...
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    Gwido Langer (category Polish Army officers)
    least mid-1931, chief of the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, which from December 1932 decrypted Germany's military Enigma-machine ciphers. Poland's...
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    Jan Kowalewski (category Polish Army officers)
    Hanyok (2004). "Appendix B: Before Enigma: Jan Kowalewski and the Early Days of the Polish Cipher Bureau (1919–22)". Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code...
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  • This is a partial list of notable Polish or Polish-speaking or -writing people. People of partial Polish heritage have their respective ancestries credited...
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