In Alan Turing Code breaker codebreaking machine they called the Bomba (the Polish word for a type of ice cream) The Bomba depended for its success on German operating procedures, and a change in those procedures in May 1940 rendered the Bomba useless During the autumn of 1939 and the spring of 1940, Turing and 80 years ago, on , the Polish intelligence disclosed Polish achievements in breaking the German Enigma ciphers to the French and British allies Work on breaking subsequent versions of "Enigma" continued in the British centre at Bletchley Park According to historians, breaking the code shortened World War II by 23 years The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is going to fire up its replica Enigma codebreaker to decrypt encoded messages sent from Poland – with an original wartime Bombe operator supervising the process The British museum's Bombe replica, recently moved into the original Block H building that housed the wartime Bombes, is a fully functional
Plaque Commemorating Polish Enigma Code Breakers Unveiled In London Science In Poland