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I have been waiting a seeming eternity for Enigma, the movie about Bletchley Park to finally be released after being delayed last Fall [ 3 May for those of us in Cambridge ].

I'm hoping they aren't going to turn it into a vehicle for Kate Winslet and tell the story as it deserves to be told with less focus on sex and Turing and more on the scores of women who did much of the decrypting tedium, the guys from Huts 5 and 6, and the heroic efforts of the Polish to solve and get a working model of the enigma to Bletchley, without which there would be no story. I am likely to be disappointed as there's nothing like a sexy movie star or a popular recipient of myth like Turing to distort history.

Cryptologia is a wonderful journal that often has articles on the Enigma and there's even a Perl module, Crypt::Enigma, though not historically accurate, available to play with.