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By the end of 1943, the US Navy had installed 120 electromechanical Bombe machines like the one above, which were used to decipher secret messages encrypted by German Enigma machines, including messages from German U-boats. Built for the Navy by the Dayton company National Cash Register, the US Bombe was an improved version of the British Bombe, which was itself based on a Polish design. Credit: National Security Agency

Keeping classified information secret in a world of quantum computing

By Jake Tibbetts | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies, Voices of Tomorrow