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Comment by jsrcout

2 years ago

I don't know the names, but I recall there was a large Polish contribution to Allied codebreaking in WWII.

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surfingdino  2 years ago

Rejewski, Zygalski, Rozycki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski

TacticalCoder  2 years ago

Polish mathematician had the Polish "bomba" in... 1938 (which is actually right before WWII):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography)

jjtheblunt  2 years ago

marian rejewski

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