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Who created the Lorenz cipher?

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The Lorenz cipher was developed by C. Lorenz AG company in Berlin. The exact employees responsible for it are unknown. It was implemented in four variants in different machines known as SZ40, SZ42, SZ42A and SZ42B and introduced in 1940 and 1942 respectively.

The British cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park referred to the Lorenz cipher as Tunny and broke it by various hand methods (but too late to be of military value) until the first of 10 Colossus programmable electronic digital computers ran in 1944 (the first militarily useful message broke by the Colossus was on June 5, 1944 reporting that the Panzers were being ordered to leave Normandy and go north to Calais, clearing the way for D-Day on June 6, 1944 without having to worry about any Panzers for long enough to capture the beaches and have moved well inland).

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