COMPUTER ETHICS AND SECURITY
CRYPTOGRAPHY AND ENCRYPTION
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Question
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Who is the mathematician responsible for inventing the machine that helped break the German enigma code?
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Alan Turing
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Addleman
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Rivest
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Richard Hamming
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Mimiyuuuh
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Mathematician. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician. Born in London in 1912, he studied at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. He was already working part-time for the British Government’s Code and Cypher School before the Second World War broke out.
Detailed explanation-2: -2002 plaque, Bletchley Park, “commemorat[ing] the work of Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski, mathematicians of the Polish intelligence service, in first breaking the Enigma code [sic: it was a cipher].
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