Joseph P Farrell – Many regular readers here probably have heard of the Allied success at decrypting the wartime military cables of Nazi Germany codenamed project Ultra. This British wartime feat involved the best cryptographers and mathematicians in the world, including Alan Turing, in an effort to decode the messages of Germany’s “Enigma” encryption machine in real time.
In effect, the project was an effort to reverse engineer the machine. It is well-known that Sir Winston Churchill, wartime prime minister of the United Kingdom, knew in advance of the Luftwaffe’s plans to bomb Coventry.