Ralph Tester

Ralph Tester

Ralph Tester

Ralph P.[1] Tester fue un administrador en Bletchley Park, la estación Quebradora de códigos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El creó y supervisó la sección llamada Testery, los cuales estaban encargados de descifrar el código cifrado llamado "Tunny". Antes de la Segunda Guerra, Tester era había trabajado como contable en Alemania y conocía bien la idiosincrasia del país.[2] Tenía una posición gerencial en Unilever.[3] Al iniciar la guerra el trabajaba para la BBC que monitorizaba las emisiones de radio alemanas.[4] Después fue reclutado en Bletchley Park, y a comienzos de 1942 estaba a la cabeza de un grupo que trabajaba en el uso de Descifrador Playfair usado por la policía alemana.[5]

Este grupo formó el núcleo de "Testery", formado en julio de 1942.[5] Inicialmente formado por un nucleo de expertos en criptografía, hacia mayo de 1945 Testery tenía a su cargo a un equipo de 118 personas.[5]

Véase también

  • Max Newman

Referencias

  1. ↑ Jack Good, Donald Michie, y Geoffrey Timms, General Report on Tunny With Emphasis on Statistical Methods, 14(A), p. 28, PRO HW 25/4 and HW 25/5
  2. ↑ Paul Gannon, Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest Secret, 2006, p. 168, Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-84354-330-3
  3. ↑ Jerry Roberts, "Major Tester's Section", p. 250 from pp. 249-259 in B. Jack Copeland, ed., Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers, Oxford University Press, 2006
  4. ↑ Michael Smith, Station X, first ed. 1998, revised 2004, p. 152
  5. ↑ a b c Roberts, "Major Tester's Section", p. 250
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