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Alan Turing’s cyber-legacy praised by GCHQ chief
By Chris Vallance Reporter, BBC World At One
Alan Turing Alan Turing only became famous decades after his death
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GCHQ director Iain Lobban has said there were “enduring lessons” to be drawn from the work of Alan Turing.
In a rare public speech the intelligence agency chief said there were “many parallels between the way we work now and the way we worked then”.
Based at Bletchley Park, the mathematician was part of the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma code - a vital part of the allied war effort.
He is now widely recognised as a computing pioneer.
However, at the time of the death - which an inquest recorded as suicide - he was virtually unknown to the public. His work at Bletchley was kept secret until 1974.