I just noticed a series of nine rare interviews were posted in June 2023 by the Polish Embassy in London. Each has only a couple hundred views on YouTube despite significance of the subject. They feature war hero Marian Rejewski, the 1st person to crack the Enigma code, describing major breakthroughs before and during WWII … Continue reading Polish Embassy Interviews 1st Person to Crack Enigma: Marian Rejewski
A management professor at WSB University in Bydgoszcz, Poland has published an impressive biography of the amazing codebreaker Marian Rejewski. We are very fortunate since Rejewski largely has been completely ignored by Americans and British who have fixated and over-sensationalized another man (Alan Turing). The First Enigma Codebreaker: Marian Rejewski Who Passed the Baton to … Continue reading 2023 Biography of Marian Rejewski: “The First Enigma Codebreaker”
Many people have been asking me for security awareness films this month. Here are two films that discuss how and why the Polish mathematicians were the first to crack the German Enigma, which thankfully seems no longer to be a controversial point. Sekret Enigmy (Enigma Secret) (1979) Detailed explanation of Enigma cracking
As long as I’m posting about very unfortunately overlooked stories about the Polish cryptanalysts of WWII who were the first to break the Nazi Enigma in the early 1930s… I should also mention here that Spanish cryptanalysts collaborated with the Poles yet are even lesser known. I just noticed that an hour-long 2019 documentary about … Continue reading “Equipo D” Documentary: Spanish Republican Cryptanalysts Who Broke the Nazi Enigma