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Colossus used telephone and teleprinter technology to decrypt messages
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Bletchley Park
To transmit messages in secret.
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use it to write secret private messages.
Colossus, the first electronic digital computer, was tasked with decoding messages during World War II, particularly those encrypted by the Lorenz cipher used by the German military. The messages were intercepted by British codebreakers, who then fed the encrypted data into Colossus. The machine utilized a series of logical circuits and Boolean algebra to process and analyze the ciphered texts, effectively decoding them and providing crucial intelligence to the Allies.
The Expert answer is wrong, Enigma messages were cracked using electromechanical Bombe machines.The computer Colossus cracked the German "Fish" codesthat the German High Command used.
Its not Collossus, Its Colossus, One L.. Its a computer device used to decode messages in WW2..
The input for Colossus was a paper tape that went through a special optical reader at a speed of 5000 characters per second on a system of pulleys called "the bedstead". There were 8 punch positions per character on this paper tape: 5 holes for the encrypted Baudot character code, 1 character synchronization hole, 1 start hole, 1 stop hole.
Colossus was a British codebreaking computer developed during World War II, not World War I. However, the term might refer to the Colossus computer, which was instrumental in deciphering the Lorenz-encrypted messages used by the German military. This groundbreaking work significantly contributed to Allied intelligence efforts during the war. In contrast, World War I saw earlier forms of codebreaking but did not involve the use of computers like Colossus.