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by jsrcout 694 days ago
I don't know the names, but I recall there was a large Polish contribution to Allied codebreaking in WWII.
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surfingdino 694 days ago
Rejewski, Zygalski, Rozycki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
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TacticalCoder 694 days ago
Polish mathematician had the Polish "bomba" in... 1938 (which is actually right before WWII):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomba_(cryptography)

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jjtheblunt 694 days ago
marian rejewski
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