One of the first huts to house the Enigma code breaking device at Bletchley Park is to be restored.

BBC: Bletchley Park Enigma code hut to be restored

Based at Bletchley Park, the mathematician was part of the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma code - a vital part of the allied war effort.

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Mr Turing worked as part of the team which cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park in World War II and went on to help create the world's first modern computer, the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine.

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For the film Enigma, he learnt the fundamentals of code-breaking to play Tom Jericho, a mathematics genius at the centre of the film.

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Even while British code breakers were cracking the Enigma machine and altering the course of the war, Americans were developing one of the most secure, efficient forms of encryption, which was also one of the simplest.

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Bletchley Park was the wartime home of the Government Code and Cypher School which broke the codes generated by the German Enigma machine, using the Bombe.

BBC: Bletchley Park Enigma code hut to be restored