118 - The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park
The WW2 Podcast
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The Importance of Code Breaking in World War One
There's probably been co-cracking agencies since some time immemorial. The invention of the wireless in radio communications meant that it was now possible for naval commands to communicate over vast distances in real time. World War One and Navy's communicating by radio obviously you need to encrypt the messages otherwise you might as well be broadcasting it to the entire world. And so instantly the importance of having co-breaking agencies sort of dawned on people very very rapidly. So I think it's not really surprising that in World War One the admiralty's code breaking unit was the sort of dominant code breaking agency.
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