abstract:Code Breakers is an ESPN Original Entertainment TV movie that was first broadcast December 10, 2005 at 9pm ET on ESPN and ESPN HD. The movie followed the Heisman Trophy presentation.
Early in the secondworldwar, Britaintook its timeto letAmericainto thesecretsofUltra, the decryption ofGermansecretcommunications by code-breakersat Bletchley Park.
How would they know about our women prisoners of war, or female military astronauts and codebreakers, and the courage of young African-American women soldiers during World War II?
Prosecutors believe that other phone calls may be on Mr. Pellicano's computer hard drive, but codebreakers haven't yet figured out how the detective may have encrypted those calls.
Even while British codebreakers were cracking the Enigma machine and altering the course of the war, Americans were developing one of the most secure, efficient forms of encryption, which was also one of the simplest.