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Nov 6, 2026
Marcus SachsGUEST
Know that I've, over the years, developed a passion for mechanical encryption devices and machines that predate the computer systems.
Marcus SachsGUEST
The holy grail of all this, of course, is the Enigma machine that was developed back, you know, prior to World War II.
Marcus SachsGUEST
They're hard to find.
Marcus SachsGUEST
Even though there were 30,000 to 40,000 of them that were made, there's, that we know of, about 350 that exist worldwide.
Marcus SachsGUEST
And so I try and take these out and well, one works and one doesn't.
Marcus SachsGUEST
So the one that does work, I'll bring it out.
Marcus SachsGUEST
In fact, I just had out a couple of weeks ago at a local high school teaching a bunch of 10th graders about how to run the Enigma machine.
Marcus SachsGUEST
Many of them had heard about it, but had never seen one.
Hal RobinsHOST
Wasn't there a code machine that was solved?
speaker_8HOST
Oh, the whole Enigma story.
speaker_8HOST
Yes.
speaker_8HOST
I bought a book on that bodyguard of Liza and gave it to my dad.
speaker_8HOST
They were now reading the email, so they knew where that sub would be.
speaker_8HOST
But to a human, you would never see the sub.
speaker_8HOST
The Enigma had laid out what was happening.
speaker_8HOST
What's the movie with Cumberbatch as Turing?
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
There is this thing about stripes and spots and all actual patterns on animals, which is that they were explained by Alan Turing.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
So Alan Turing, most famous probably for solving the Enigma machine, like big World War II codebreaker, real hero, very sadly killed himself in the mid-1950s.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
But before he did that, he wrote a paper called The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis.
Anna PtaszynskiHOST
It was the last paper he wrote, and it explained why animals have certain patterns.
Steve StocktonHOST
Since the early 20th century, codebreakers have tried to apply every known decryption method.
Steve StocktonHOST
During World War II, the elite cryptanalysts who broke the Japanese purple code and the German Enigma spent their spare time on the voyage.
Steve StocktonHOST
They failed miserably.
Steve StocktonHOST
If it is a cipher, it is one of such complexity that it predates the mathematical understanding of its time by centuries.
2 HRS 27 MINS LATER
Steve StocktonHOST
When police examined the book, they found two incredible leads on the back cover.
Steve StocktonHOST
Five lines of capital letters that appeared to be in cipher.
Steve StocktonHOST
To this day, the world's top cryptographers, including those who broke the Enigma code, have been unable to crack it.
Steve StocktonHOST
And there was an unlisted phone number belonging to a young nurse named Jessica Jo Thompson, who lived just 400 meters from where the body was found.
Martel WikeepaHOST
the
Don BrashGUEST
Enigma code...
Martel WikeepaHOST
Yes, I did.
Martel WikeepaHOST
Extraordinary
Don BrashGUEST
He was a guy that, in some people's estimate, shortened the Second World War by two years.
Don BrashGUEST
Literally.
Don BrashGUEST
Because they cracked the Enigma code the Germans were using.
Don BrashGUEST
And he was gay.
Liam RossCORRESPONDENT
As well as being a distinguished historian, author and president of the town society, Jean was a member of Hut 6 at Bletchley Park.
Liam RossCORRESPONDENT
who were responsible for helping decipher German Army and Air Force Enigma messages.
Liam RossCORRESPONDENT
Speaking last year as part of a special VE Day podcast at the Parklands Linmore Care Home where she stays, Jean explained how she had to keep her work secret.
Jean MunroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It wasn't until about 1980, I think, that my parents knew what I was doing.
John SchaeflerHOST
So the Turing test, you know, basically said, brilliant freaking guy that he was that the British government killed because he was gay, lovely.
John SchaeflerHOST
Anyway, after he saved them from the war, right? He builds the Enigma machine and then they chemically castrate him because he's gay and then he kills himself.
John SchaeflerHOST
Great move by the Brits.
John SchaeflerHOST
Anyway, the idea here is how do I know I'm talking to an agent versus talking to a human? And that what they've suggested, not suggested, what they've implemented is this thing called ZK-SNARK, which is a powerful cryptographic proof that says it's provable inference from a particular model.
Eric BlackHOST
like that, yes.
Anthony BellinoHOST
It's kind of like the Enigma machine.
Anthony BellinoHOST
Find it in the submarine somewhere.
Eric BlackHOST
A little text proof.
Beef StroganoffHOST
Because in a way, actually, wait, hold on.
Beef StroganoffHOST
In a way, Alan Turing and Doss are connected because there is a Doss remix of the song Enigma by Lady Gaga on the Chromatica remix album.
Beef StroganoffHOST
So in a way, Alan Turing and Doss, same person.
Beef StroganoffHOST
Like at least sister wives.
Beef StroganoffHOST
UK scientist.
Beef StroganoffHOST
She saved us all from the Nazis.
Beef StroganoffHOST
Yeah, she helped crack the like Nazi code called the Enigma code.
Beef StroganoffHOST
And then afterwards, they basically found out he was gay and forced him into like forced chemical castration.
Kenneth CopelandGUEST
They never did.
Kenneth CopelandGUEST
They had to steal an Enigma machine.
Kenneth CopelandGUEST
Right.
Greg StephensHOST
Right.
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