Event Details
Second World War
Description
British forces breaking German one-time pad encryption due to pseudo-random generation.
Participants (4)
| Name | Type | Mentions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Shannon | person | 58 | View Entity |
| Germans | organization | 4 | View Entity |
| Former members of the British military | person | 2 | View Entity |
| Allied code breakers | organization | 2 | View Entity |
Source Documents (1)
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A page from a book or paper (page 337) titled 'Free Will' discussing a 'Quantum Morse Machine' and a 'Simple Free Will Theorem.' It uses the history of WWII cryptography (Claude Shannon, German one-time pads) to argue about the non-computability of the Universe and quantum mechanics. The document bears a House Oversight stamp.
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