Alan Turing and the Enigma

Cool guy

[beatlemaniac]

He was the Vincent Van Gogh of computing. Unappreciated and ridiculed during life, adored and idolised after death.

[felixroux]

"You probably wouldn't be watching this video now without his work."
This video is entirely based on his work. The video *wouldn't exist* now without his work.

[TheWolf]

honestly the fatal flaw wasn't the repeating letters, but the repeating phrases in the messages themselves

[Uselessnoobcow]

Turing was one of the main reasons for me pursuing computer science, his work in computing and mathematics is arguably even more impressive than enigma. Imagine what the world would be like if we hadn’t treated him so barbarically, decades of progress lost all because of nasty repulsive beliefs. I’ve heard this story so many times and it never fails to make me upset and angry :(

[abe]

Germany: WE HAVE TECHNOLOGY!
American Navajo code talkers:

[Slash]

Holy smokes, what a twist.
Lots of love to you Alan, glad you got recognized fully in the end.

[IrobertHD]

also the weakness with the incapability of not encrypting a letter wiht itself was actually a brainfart of the inventor. he thought this would make the machine safer.

[aatsiii]

Thank you sir, for mentioning Polish involvement in cracking enigma. Most people omit it, and the fact is, it would not happen without it

[ABanimationLtd]

There aren't many things which make me feel ashamed to be British, but as a computer scientist, the way we treated Alan Turing is definitely one of those things

[berlineczka]

Thanks for mentioning the role Polish cryptologists played in cracking the Enigma. Basically, the Polish Cipher Bureau was the behemoth of cryptology since 1919 and if it wasn't for the Poles deciding in 1939 to share their documentation of breaking the first Enigma with their allies, UK and France, the UK would have needed many more years to even begin to crack it.
Alan Turing and his team (to a large extend female mathematicians!) greatly improved on the work of Marian Rejewski and his team, and his Bombe design was a huge upgrade from the much smaller Polish Bomba. Therefore, claiming that is was "one man" is really doing him - and everybody at Bletchley Park and in the Cipher Bureau a disservice.

[amywhelan]

My father is a software engineer, and he raised me & my brothers with unwavering admiration for Alan Turing. We weren’t a religious household, but if we were, it was a religion of science and technology, and Sir Turing was a saint.

[georgebardsley]

I actually had maths lessons in the house next door to Turing’s home. My old college had a statue of him in the park behind it.
I honestly believe I think he’s one of the greatest men who ever lived and I’m glad he’s getting a bank note

[cakecinema]

I’m bi. Turing is definitely one of my hero’s. I don’t believe in an afterlife, but on the off chance I’m wrong, I look forward to meeting him one day.

[Scien_Tific]

Holy shit I am actually livid about the fact that we stopped this brilliant man's progress on what was going to pave the way for all of modern technology, simply because he was gay
And that just makes me think where we would be if we hadn't suppressed things like women's rights for thousands of years, if we'd instead have actually given people equal chances at using their brilliance to advance technology

Perhaps many of the problems that haunt us today would never even have come to exist

[lewissthompson]

No way does this channel only have 29 k subs?!?! this seems like a multi million sub channel
you can make it dude!

[morthwore]

"His only gift to us was our future"

[celestialmedia]

Respect to him and glad he got recognised and appreciated

[megalinc]

Bruh I can't believe I'm watching a two year old video of yours and it's got less than 100k views, you deserve so much more than only 60k subs bruh I've been binging your stuff all day

[jan-Juta]

Good video, although it does repeat some urban legends as fact. For instance the repeated phrase used to crack codes was not "heil hitler", it was "weather report".

[TheFrederation_]

one of the greatest British War hero's