28 Mar 2013 13:17
OBITUARY : John Wright
28 March 2013 OBITUARY : John Wright ---------------------- John Wright, wartime cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park Wartime cryptanalyst at Bletchley Park who decoded the German high command's vital "Tunny" messages One of the dwindling band of veterans of Bletchley Park who worked on the German "Lorenz" cipher, John Wright was a toiler at the coalface of intelligence gathering, deciphering encrypted German signals traffic at their highest level of command. In early 1942, before Wright was diverted from the Royal Armoured Corps where he was a radio operator, the Lorenz cipher system - codenamed Tunny by the British code-breakers - had been cracked. The system was used to encrypt messages between the German Army HQ in Berlin and field commanders of huge forces on all the key battle fronts....../snip/ http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article3724558.ece http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00398/124786243_Wright1_398865c.jpg http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/multimedia/archive/00398/124792806_Lorenz_398867c.jpg
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