He said he was doing code-breaking.

他说过他在破密码。

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During the Second World War Turing worked at Bletchley Park, Britain's code-breaking centre, and was for a time head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis.

二战期间，图灵在布莱切里公园工作，这里是英国破译密码的中心，一段时间里他作为“Hut 8”部门的头，这个部门负责德国海军的密码翻译工作。

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After making a copy of the file, the hacker ran it through a code-breaking program that exposed the passwords as plain text.

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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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Students tended to think maths leads to teaching or accountancy, when it could mean a career in Formula 1 racing, code-breaking or journalism, a spokeswoman for the consortium said.

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