Anoraks Corner by Tony Sale
So now you think you can break Lorenz?

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The Lorenz machine

Follow pages revising how the Lorenz worked.
The Lorenz SZ42 cipher machine

Its vulnerabilities

a page describing the the vulnerabilities of Lorenz and how they were exploited
The Code Breakers
Tutte, Newman and Turing

Breaking using statistics

a page describing the the statistical attack on Lorenz 		Normal Distribution
The Normal distribution

Speeding up Colossus

a page describing the how the MK II Colossus was speeded up 		Tommy Flowers
Tommy Flowers, Allen Coombs

The Intercept Scenarios

Are you up to Breaking Lorenz? 		Radio Masts
The Radio Intercepts

The tools used to break Lorenz

Click here for the tools
Colossus and Tunny

This page was originally created by the late Tony Sale, the original curator of the Bletchley Park Museum. Upkeep provided by Cambridge PPC Agency.