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Alfred Dillwyn " Dilly " Knox, CMG (23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943) was a British classics scholar and papyrologist at King's College, Cambridge and a codebreaker. As a member of the Room 40 codebreaking unit he helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram which brought the USA into the First World War. [1] .
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Dilly Knox was a British codebreaker who helped decrypt the Zimmermann Telegram and the Italian Enigma. He was known for his eccentricity, his rodding method, and his love for chocolate and coffee.
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Jan 25, 2015 · Learn about the 'Dilly's Girls', the female staff who worked with Dillwyn 'Dilly' Knox, a leading codebreaker at Bletchley Park during WWII. Discover how they decoded Enigma messages, faced challenges and kept secrets.
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In 1927, the UK openly purchased a commercial Enigma. Its operation was analysed and reported. Although a leading British cryptographer, Dilly Knox (a veteran of World War I and the cryptanalytical activities of the Royal Navy's Room 40), worked on decipherment he had
Jan 31, 2019 · Scholar and codebreaker Dilly Knox, whose work led to the decryption of over 140,000 messages of Germany’s military intelligence, would stroll along the shores of the lake, cup of tea in hand....
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Dilly: The Man who Broke Enigmas. Mavis Batey. Dialogue, 2009 - Biography & Autobiography - 244 pages. Alfred Dillwyn Knox was a famously eccentric & temperamental codebreaker who cracked...
But the endeavours of Alan Turing, Dilly Knox and their colleagues were so top secret that we are only now beginning to learn how they really lived day-to-day in this magnificent house, where – behind closed doors, under the cover of darkness, and against the clock - they determined the course of our wartime history.
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