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It was the middle of the second world war, Europe was under siege and while the allied forces were able to intercept radio traffic communication, they could not make any sense of the information, since it was encrypted. Germany had developed an ingenious device, called the Enigma, which allowed for millions of possible encryption combinations. Being able to decrypt that communication would no doubt be of tremendous value to the allied forces. One day, a man stepped into the offices of Britain’s code breaking centre at Bletchley park. He claimed he would be able to build a machine that could decrypt the enemy’s communication. It was <strong>Alan Turing</strong>, a mathematician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist.