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Marek Grajek

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Aug 28, 2026

26:10
definitely, yes.
26:11
Because Poles were responsible for two revolutions in the cryptography and in the code breaking in particular.
26:20
which revolutionized and changed completely the face of the contemporary cryptography.
26:25
The first revolution was a wide application of the mathematical and not the linguistical methods in breaking the ciphers.
26:34
The three poles responsible for the original break of Enigma were mathematicians.
26:40
For the first time in the history, they decided to use their trade, their knowledge, mathematical knowledge in breaking the ciphers with spectacular success.
26:53
Because over a period of three months, only Marian Rejewski managed to break the cipher.
28:48
People don't think about that, do they? Well, people

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