Bombe
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- The Enigma machine
- Four-rotor Enigma
- The principle of the bombe
- Structure
- Bombe menu
- Stecker values
- Automated deduction
- In practice
- The British Bombe
- Response to the four-rotor Enigma
- US Navy Bombe
- US Army Bombe
- Bombe rebuild
- Simulators
- See also
- Notes
- References
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thumb|220px|A wartime picture of a Bletchley Park Bombe
The bombe () was an electro-mechanical device used by British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II. The British bombe was developed from the Polish bomba, which had been designed at the Cipher Bureau by cryptologist Marian Rejewski, who had been breaking German Enigma messages for the previous seven years, using it and earlier machines.
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