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It has been reported that a new elite cyber security school will be opened at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, where British codebreakers cracked the Enigma Code during World War II. The school is planned to open in 2018, and will accommodate up to 500 students aged 16 to 19.
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During World War II the mansion house in Buckinghamshire, England, was home to the British government's Code and Cypher School, whose critical but top secret work has become well known through books and movies like the Oscar-winning "The Imitation Game."
It was here that codebreakers like Alan Turing successfully cracked Germany's Enigma encryption system, allowing them to intercept the enemy's communications and hastening the end of the war.
Now the site is to become home to the UK's first National College of Cyber Security, to open once a £5 million ($6.2 million) restoration project is complete.
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