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13 Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot 2 place · today 16:34 EDT

Remembering When Alan Turing Developed a Portable Voice Encryption Device

Long-time Slashdot reader smooth wombat writes: Alan Turing, one of the more famous people who worked at Bletchley Park to decipher the German Enigma coding machine, was also working on a separate project. His private papers, known as the Bayley papers for his assistant Donald Bayley who held onto the papers until his death in 2020, reveal Turning had produced a working model of a portable voice encryption device. He even demonstrated it by using a Winston Churchill speech recording. "Weighing just 39 kg, i

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