Timeline for How do they know the contents of the morning weather report message before they break the code?
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| May 23, 2017 at 19:04 | comment | added | David Jacobsen | I don't believe it explicitly happened in the film but it was implied that they could be decrypted just not quick enough. The goal of the turing machine was to break the encrypted reports in time to be useful. Every day there was a new cipher, they frequently showed them running until the end of the day and stopping as the germans used a new days cipher. | |
| Sep 18, 2016 at 5:14 | comment | added | Thunderforge | This is correct in real life, but this did not happen the fillm. There was an early scene where another cryptologist says that he is trying to break the codes using letter frequencies, and we are led to believe that this work stopped to focus on Turing's machine. | |
| Feb 1, 2015 at 6:17 | vote | accept | user18545 | ||
| Jan 31, 2015 at 4:29 | history | answered | Donald.McLean | CC BY-SA 3.0 |