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Enigma Cipher Centre
Poznań (Poland)
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For a number of years, the Polish region of Wielkopolska and the city of
Poznan have put a lot of effort into bringing the Polish contribution of breaking
the Enigma cipher, to the attention of the international public.
A dedicated exhibition –
Enigma, Decipher Victory
– has been created for this purpose,
and has made a 12-year tour throughout Poland,
Europe and the rest of the world [1].
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The building now houses a cultural centre, but still serves as an important
crypto landmark, as the
monument that commemorates the three Polish mathematicians
— Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rózycki and Henryk Zygalski — is located right in front
of it.
Inside the container is a complete timeline of important events in the
history of the development of the rotor
cipher machine,
and the Enigma in particular.
It also holds a number of
interactive displays that offer children and adults a way of getting acquainted
with some early forms of — simple — manual cipher methods.
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The Enigma container was developed with help of Szymon Dąbrowski,
who is also one of the people behind the
International Cryptology Game
at CODEBREAKERS.EU.
Approximately 100 people visit the container on an average day, with more
than double that amount during the weekends. Eventually, the container will
travel around Poland and perhaps also through Europe.
On Monday 13 November 2017, an agreement was signed for the development
of an Enigma Education Centre in the city of Poznan, for which a suitable
location and funding had been found.
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The new centre will
be located at the first floor of the building that is just visible
at the right edge of the photograph at the top of this page, just
across the street from the original university building where the three
men studied.
Following this, another agreement was signed at a mini-conference
a week later — on Monday 20 November 2017 — to secure the cooperation of
eight Polish towns that are connected to the Polish cryptological
successes. The agreement was signed by Mr. Marek Woźniak
— the Marshal of Wielkopolska — and the majors of the eight Polish towns.
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The image above
was taken at the event on 20 November 2017, and shows
the Marshal of the region of Wielkopolska — Mr. Marek Woźniak — amidst
the majors of the eight towns (listed below), holding the
agreement that has just been signed.
The new Enigma Education Centre in Poznań
is scheduled to be opened in late 2019.
At the conference in Poznań, several speakers gave their view on
the integration of encryption with mathematics in the national curriculum
of Polish schools, in order to raise a permanent awareness for security in our
current society.
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Future developments and information about the new Polish Enigma Education Centre
an initiatives in the other Polish towns that are involved,
will be announced on this page as and when they emerge. So, visit this
page regularly.
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In the papers that were signed in Poznan on 20 November 2017,
it was agreed that the following eight locations will cooperate
in future projects to bring the Polish cryptological successes
to the attention of the public.
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Szamotuły Hometown of Colonel Maksimilian Ciężki Pobiedziska Hometown of Antoni Palluth 1 — AVA engineer Poznań Hometown of Henryk Zygalski and location of the crypto course Bydgoszcz Hometown of Marjan Rejewski Wyszków Where Jerzy Różycki took his secondary school exams Warsawa Main seat of the Polish Cipher Bureau (all were moved here in 1932) Sosnowiec Danilewicz brothers and Thadeus Heftman (AVA company) 1 Cieszyn Hometown of Colonel Guido Langer 2
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Antoni Palluth and the Danilewicz brothers were the owners
of the AVA company that built equipment for the Polish Cipher Bureau,
such as the Polish Enigma Clone. They also made early
Polish Pipsztock spy radio set
developed by Thadeus Heftman.
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Colonel Guido Langer was the head of the Polish Cipher Bureau from 1930
onwards.
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