The Imitation Game: Turing or Rejewski?

[ClausB]

A new topic over in the Movies forum, to honor our clever Polish friends:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/233269-the-imitation-game-turing-or-rejewski/

 

Please post your replies there.

[ClausB]

IMDB says this has now been released in Poland. What do our Polish members think of it?

[pirx]

Better than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_%28film%29

 

or WTF movie

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_(2001_film)

 

where the only Pole is a traitor.

 

Hollywood must really despise us, if you know what I mean ((((((:

Edited January 18, 2015 by pirx

[MrFish]

Hollywood is nothing but a big money-hungry, brain-candy, propaganda tool.

[ryanmercer]

Steve Gibson does a good comparison of reality to the movie in Security Now episode #490 http://twit.tv/show/security-now/490?page=1 and the transcript: https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-490.htm

[+Larry]

Saw the movie today and was certainly impressed with Benedict Cumberbatch's performance as Turing. Certainly hope he is nominated for Best Actor. From my knowledge of the facts, they certainly took some artistic license, but it was "based on..." And it was entertaining. Loved their re-creations of the original hardware, and especially Turing's machine. Another impressive part was that I saw this in "Sony 4K Digital." This was the clearest big screen display that I can remember. Looked like Blu-Ray on a really good 32" 1080P LED TV.

 

-Larry

[Kyle22]

Does anyone know of Enigma 6502 code suitable for our computers? I found a 2600 one, but it's too 2600 specific. I have an idea I'd like to try concerning message encryption for BBS systems.

[+Larry]

This has been done several times. Search AA (A8) for "Enigma".

 

-Larry