Talk:Lorenz cipher

message: This page certainly must be renamed to Lorenz cipher
  -- JidGom 11:15, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with JidGom, so I will move it. It seems that common names should be article titles, while technical (eg, binomial nomenclature) names should be bolded in the article. Feel free to move back if you disagree, since I am not familiar with the subject of this article anyway. JianLi 17:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops I messed up! I moved it to Lorenz Cipher. Can an admin move it to Lorenz cipher? JianLi 17:18, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page name

message: Hi, I've hacked together a draft logical diagram of the Lorenz machine using Inkscape.  Any comments? (I'd like to find an actual Wikipedia illustrator to render the final version of the diagram). — Matt Crypto 14:29, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft Diagram 

message: This article doesn't mention the fruits resulting from the decipher. Imagine Reason (talk) 02:08, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apparently the value of this break was higher than that of Enigma's. 

message: Gil Hayward's obituary says he "proved crucial to the successful development of Tunny and Colossus."
Can someone with a better knowledge add some details? 
JRPG (talk) 21:31, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gil Hayward 

message: Rebuilding Colossus"In 1993 I gathered together all the information available. This consisted of eight wartime photographs taken of Colossus in 1945 plus some fragments of circuit diagrams which some engineers had kept quite illegally, as engineers nearly always do. The original drawings of the mechanical assemblies had been deliberately burnt in 1960." So there was no remaining Colossus to work from after the order for them to be deliberately dismantled, for some odd reason. The  idea was to remove all trace, it's established there was a need to work from diagrams and there is no mention that any were kept for any amount of time, which would be surprising if Prime Minister Winston Churchill specifically ordered the Colossus computers to be destroyed.Overagainst (talk) 18:17, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Two of the Colossus machines were taken over by GCHQ and moved to Eastcote in April 1946.  They were again moved to Cheltenham between 1952 and 1954.  They were decommisioned in 1959 and 1960 respectively.  This is all fully documented and cited over at Colossus.   Enough fragments of circuits (most of which were found in the US) survived that the machine could be rebuilt.  The major problem was the optical tape reader for which there were no drawings.  Fortunately, at the time of the rebuild, Doctor Arnold Lynch (the original designer) was still alive and was able to design it again to hos own specification.   –LiveRail < Talk > 11:55, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:   No Colossus computers survived 

message: Article states, "The SZ42A and SZ42B models had additional complexity to this [SZ40] mechanism, known at Bletchley Park as Limitations.".
Since this is meant to be an encyclopedia, how about telling the reader what these complexities were rather than leave him wondering.  I actually came to this article to find out what these differences were.  I was to be disappointed.  31.48.73.38 (talk) 16:40, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are we writing an encyclopedia or setting puzzles? 

message: An anonymous editor has added some detail to the lead which duplicates material later in the article and which is of poor grammar. He or she has also included links in a heading which is against WP:LINKSTYLE. I shall revert it again and invite the editor to discuss the matter here.--TedColes (talk) 17:59, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: On the BBC News text articles and elsewhere eg - a machine has been discovered in a shed.
Does this warrant a mention in the article or here just on the talk page? Jackiespeel (talk) 09:59, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The machine that was discovered was a Lorenz teleprinter that was used by the German military, not a SZ42. It is now on display in the "Tunny" gallery at The National Museum of Computing next to the SZ42 that is on loan from the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum --TedColes (talk) 17:00, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Things tend to get simplified in the (reading of) news text articles. (How many 'bits of interesting equipment' surface as a result of such stories?) Jackiespeel (talk) 09:33, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discovery of machine in the news 

message: Why 'Tunny'? Anything to do with boxing champion Gene Tunney? Or the variant of tuna? Or just a word that no one would know?
Nick Barnett (talk) 23:59, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Variant of Tuna, see: Hinsley, F.H. “An Introduction to Fish.” Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park. Eds. F.H. Hinsley & Alan Stripp. Oxford Univeristy Press, 1993 p141.--TedColes (talk) 15:33, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tunny