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Rolf Noskwith (19 June 1919 – 3 January 2017) was a British businessman who during the Second World War worked under Alan Turing as a cryptographer at the Bletchley Park British military base.[1]
Noskwith was recruited to Bletchley Park and arrived in June 1941.[4] He worked in Hut 8, focusing on the German navy's Enigma machine, decrypting the Kriegsmarine's coded wireless traffic from 1941 to 1945,[5] and subsequently on other ciphers. He joined the crib subsection, headed by Shaun Wylie.[4] One of Noskwith's noted talents was lining up cribs with cipher text strips, to see if they matched.[3]
His biggest accomplishment was breaking the Naval Enigma Offizier settings. He created a crib based on the letters 'EEESSSPATRONE' and had placed into cue to be crunched by Bletchley's bombe analogue computers. The letter pairings referred to colour-coding used by German ships' flares as "friend or foe" detection. When the crib worked, it allowed the Allied forces to read German messages sent to and from Kriegsmarine officers.[6]
He recalled that most people were addressed by their first name there:[7] the two exceptions were Alan Turing, known as "Prof"; and F.A. Kendrick, whom he was surprised to see listed in the index of Hinsley and Stripp's book Codebreakers as Kendrick, Tony.[8]
[/url]Beginning in 1946, Noskwith worked for Charnos, the textile company founded by his father, and became its chairman in 1952.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Noskwith#cite_note-Sugarman_2012-1][1] Around the year 2000, he was made non-executive chairman of Charnos plc.Around the year 2000, he was made non-executive chairman of Charnos plc.
Noskwith died on 3 January 2017, aged 97.[9][10] He is thought to have been the last surviving cryptographer of Bletchley Park at the time of his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Noskwith
Noskwith was recruited to Bletchley Park and arrived in June 1941.[4] He worked in Hut 8, focusing on the German navy's Enigma machine, decrypting the Kriegsmarine's coded wireless traffic from 1941 to 1945,[5] and subsequently on other ciphers. He joined the crib subsection, headed by Shaun Wylie.[4] One of Noskwith's noted talents was lining up cribs with cipher text strips, to see if they matched.[3]
His biggest accomplishment was breaking the Naval Enigma Offizier settings. He created a crib based on the letters 'EEESSSPATRONE' and had placed into cue to be crunched by Bletchley's bombe analogue computers. The letter pairings referred to colour-coding used by German ships' flares as "friend or foe" detection. When the crib worked, it allowed the Allied forces to read German messages sent to and from Kriegsmarine officers.[6]
He recalled that most people were addressed by their first name there:[7] the two exceptions were Alan Turing, known as "Prof"; and F.A. Kendrick, whom he was surprised to see listed in the index of Hinsley and Stripp's book Codebreakers as Kendrick, Tony.[8]
[/url]Beginning in 1946, Noskwith worked for Charnos, the textile company founded by his father, and became its chairman in 1952.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Noskwith#cite_note-Sugarman_2012-1][1] Around the year 2000, he was made non-executive chairman of Charnos plc.Around the year 2000, he was made non-executive chairman of Charnos plc.
Noskwith died on 3 January 2017, aged 97.[9][10] He is thought to have been the last surviving cryptographer of Bletchley Park at the time of his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Noskwith
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