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Alan Turing Google Doodle (and how to solve it)

Google is celebrating Alan Turing’s 100th birthday. Alan Mathison Turing is his full name and he was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.

Understand the working principle before using this doodle: http://www.cryptlife.com/internet/google/how-to-use-alan-turing-google-doodle

Google has praised him by integrating a logo in its homepage. This sounds good. This video will show you the answers for making the whole Google logo to be colored. by solving the Doodle. The Doodle has around 12 levels where, when you complete answering 6 answers, and when you refresh the homepage, you’ll get the next level to be solved.

This video is contains the answer for the first level.

Strange Random Cryptography Quote:

“Cryptography is like literacy in the Dark Ages. Infinitely potent, for good and ill… yet basically an intellectual construct, an idea, which by its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who deem only themselves worthy of such Privilege.” Vin McLellan, “A Thinking Man’s Creed for Crypto”

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Turing papers to stay in UK after 11th-hour auction bid

February 26, 2011 Leave a comment
Turing in slate at Bletchley Park. People who ...

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Second world war papers by the UK’s most famous code-breaker, Alan Turing, have been bought for the nation with an 11th-hour bid by the National Heritage Memorial Fund. Turing’s work was in danger of going to a private buyer abroad but will now stay in its “spiritual home”, Bletchley Park, which was the centre of Britain’s top secret code-breaking effort during the war. The mathematician, often dubbed “the father of computer science”, helped crack the German Enigma code while stationed at Bletchley Park.

via Turing papers to stay in UK after 11th-hour auction bid | Science | guardian.co.uk.

Strange Random Code Quote:

“We really haven’t done everything we could to protect our customers … Our products just aren’t engineered for security” – Brian Valentine, Senior Vice President of the Windows Division, 05/09/02

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