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  2. Enigma (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Enigma is a 1995 novel by Robert Harris about Tom Jericho, a young mathematician trying to break the Germans' "Enigma" ciphers during World War II. [1] Jericho is stationed in Bletchley Park , the British cryptology central office, and is worked to the point of physical and mental exhaustion.

  3. X, Y & Z - Wikipedia

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    X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken is a 2018 book by Dermot Turing about the Enigma machine, which was used by Nazi Germany in World War II, and about the French, British, and Polish teams that worked on decrypting messages transmitted using the Enigma cipher. The book was published in English, Polish, French, and Greek and ...

  4. Enigma Variations (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Enigma Variations is a 2017 novel by André Aciman. It was published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. [1] Plot. First Love. Paul revisits an Italian ...

  5. Map seed - Wikipedia

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    In video games using procedural world generation, the map seed is a (relatively) short number or text string which is used to procedurally create the game world ("map"). "). This means that while the seed-unique generated map may be many megabytes in size (often generated incrementally and virtually unlimited in potential size), it is possible to reset to the unmodified map, or the unmodified ...

  6. List of games using procedural generation - Wikipedia

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    Maps (Worlds) can be generated, either randomly, using a seed, or via third party tools. The distribution of POIs and loot is also generative. Anarchy Online: 2001 Funcom Mission rewards, loot, dungeon layout, and location on the world map can be generated based on selections made at mission terminals. [6] [unreliable source] Astroneer: 2019

  7. Marian Rejewski - Wikipedia

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    Marian Adam Rejewski (Polish: [ˈmarjan rɛˈjɛfskʲi] ⓘ; 16 August 1905 – 13 February 1980) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence.

  8. Ultra (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    Later, the 1973 public disclosure of Enigma decryption in the book Enigma by French intelligence officer Gustave Bertrand generated pressure to discuss the rest of the Enigma–Ultra story. [ 101 ] The British ban was finally lifted in 1974, the year that a key participant on the distribution side of the Ultra project, F. W. Winterbotham ...

  9. F. W. Winterbotham - Wikipedia

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    There had been mentions of Enigma decryption in earlier books by Władysław Kozaczuk, Ladislas Farago and Gustave Bertrand. However, Winterbotham's book was the first extensive account of the uses to which the massive volumes of Enigma-derived intelligence were put by the Allies, on the western and eastern European fronts, in the Mediterranean ...