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Re: BBC programme

@a_yank_lurker said:

The development of Colossus was to make the brute force method for Enigma a reasonable option.

Colossus was developed to break the "Tunny" Lorenz cipher. The brute force method to find Enigma keys used the Bombe machines.

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