Enigma was broken by Polish mathemathicians in 1938, then improved by Germans, then broken again, Poles had given all their discoveries to France and to Great Brittain, they also invented first "Bomba" to that worked mechanically.
It's complicated story, and these people deserve credit along with Turing. But till 1970 it was classified information, and to this day everybody talks only about Turing.
Maybe it's my nationalism bias at work, but I'd prefer if the whole story was better known.
I agree. Also this article only makes it worse. It claims that (a) no one was working on Enigma before Turing and (b) Turing worked on it because he 'liked solitude'. WTF? Given that total bollocks in that part of the article I have a hard time reading the rest. Note that Bletchley Park does a very good job of talking about the Polish contribution to the cryptanalytic effort with examples of how the Polish attacks on Enigma were performed and a Polish memorial and they have a special annual Polish day.
Enigma was broken by Polish mathemathicians in 1938, then improved by Germans, then broken again, Poles had given all their discoveries to France and to Great Brittain, they also invented first "Bomba" to that worked mechanically.
It's complicated story, and these people deserve credit along with Turing. But till 1970 it was classified information, and to this day everybody talks only about Turing.
Maybe it's my nationalism bias at work, but I'd prefer if the whole story was better known.