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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.
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.
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 only the messages he generated himself to practice with.
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.
Sep 3, 2018 · In late July 1939, just over a month before the German army marched into Poland, Bertrand arranged for the respected British cryptologist Dillwyn ‘Dilly’ Knox (who was already working on ...
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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...
Jul 20, 2009 · Dillwyn "Dilly" Knox was delighted with the Polish copy of an Enigma - a top secret German military cipher machine. But his meeting with code breakers in Poland in...
