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Bombe (British)

A British electromechanical device for recovering Enigma keys, named similarly to the Polish cryptologic bomb.

According to GCHQ, conversations between Alan Turing and Marian Rejewski in Paris in January 1940 formed the basis of the concept of the first British bombe.1

More in the operation card: Breaking Enigma.

Sources

  1. GCHQ, The Pyry Forest meeting

Checked: 4 November 2026