Colossus loses code-cracking race

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An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer.

The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking duties for the first time in more than 60 years.

The team using Colossus managed to decipher the message just after lunch on 16 November.

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Topper said:
An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge
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He is German, that chap....:)
 
Ah, the Bletchley code-crackers' huts....

Many's the time I sat in them whilst wading through telephony courses wondering if a top code-cracker had sat in my very seat :cool:

Llew
 
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