2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum. Showing the World War II story of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park attempting to break the German Enigma code.
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Why was a newspaper crossword puzzle used to find prospective code-breakers?
Anyone familiar with newspaper crossword puzzles knows that anyone with even only a modicum of intelligence can solve even the most difficult puzzles, given a little perseverance / (years of) practice. Crossword puzzle afficionados have long since…
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Why does the term "CILLY" begin at the start of every message in "The Imitation Game"?
In the movie The Imitation Game, Alan Turing has a Eureka moment when he learns from a woman that one particular German begins every message that he sends out with the term "CILLY".
From what I understand, the significant of this moment is that…
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How did Alan Turing have access to decrypted Enigma messages?
In The Imitation Game, we see that when Alan Turing climbs into Joan's room, he has in his hands actual decrypted Enigma messages "direct from Nazi high command".
How did Alan have access to those messages?
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Is this a mistake in The Imitation Game?
In explaining how hard it is to crack the code of the Enigma machine, Cumberbatch' character says in The Imitation Game:
There are 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All we had to do was try each one. But if we had 10 men…
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Which book about encryption did Christopher give Alan when he was a child?
In one of the flashbacks in The Imitation Game that show Alan's childhood, Christopher gave him a book about encryption.
What is the name of that book?
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How are Turing and Christopher's messages in The Imitation Game encrypted?
I'm partway through watching The Imitation Game, the biopic about Alan Turing. In the scenes depicting Turing's childhood, Turing and Christopher exchange notes/letters, which they first encrypt to prevent others reading them.
The first message is…
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The Imitation Game - 10 men checking one setting a minute
In the movie when Cumberbatch said the following phrase
There are 159 million, million, million possible Enigma settings. All
we had to do was try each one. But if we had 10 men checking one
setting a minute for 24 hours every day and seven…
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