Alan Turing's Secret "Delilah" Voice-Encryption Project Revealed in Newly Auctioned Wartime Papers
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Jack Copeland
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A collection of Alan Turing's wartime documents, known as the "Bayley papers," was auctioned in November 2023 for nearly half a million dollars. The papers detail Turing's top-secret "Delilah" voice-encryption project from 1943 to 1945, developed with his assistant Donald Bayley. The Delilah machine was a portable voice encryption system designed for secure battlefield communications, though it was completed too late for use in WWII. The documents, containing Turing's handwritten notes, provide unprecedented insight into this lesser-known engineering project by the famed mathematician and codebreaker.
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Hacker NewsAlan Turing's Secret "Delilah" Voice-Encryption Project Revealed in Newly Auctioned Wartime Papersspectrum.ieee.orgKey quotes
· 3 pulledIt was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military's unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together.
The previously unknown cache contains many sheets in Turing's own handwriting, telling of his top-secret 'Delilah' engineering project from 1943 to 1945.
A collection of documents was recently sold at auction for almost half a million dollars. The documents detail a top-secret voice-encryption project led by Alan Turing, culminating in the creation of the Delilah machine.
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