Wartime code-cracker in fresh battle

A CODE-CRACKING computer developed during the Second World War to intercept Nazi messages was yesterday locked in a battle with modern technology to decipher a message from the Continent.

Colossus, the world’s first programmable digital computer, began the task of unravelling an encoded message transmitted from Germany yesterday.

At the same time, amateur code breakers using more up-to-date computer equipment are trying to crack the encrypted text.