Cryptanalysis of the Enigma immense problem and it gave a great deal of trouble. Work on a high speed machine had been started by Wynn-Williams of the TRE late in 1941 and some nine months later Harold Keen of BTM started work independently. Early in 1942, Bletchley Park were a long way from possessing a high speed machine of any sort. Eventually, after a long period of being unable to decipher U-boat messages, a source of cribs was found. This was the Kurzsignale (short signals), a code which the German navy used to minimize the duration of transmissions, thereby reducing the risk of being
Cracking The Code was the last music Hubert ever made… so I felt a duty of care. I asked [Dr. John] to help me finish it and he agreed." Hubert Sumlin died 13 days after the recording session for "Cracking The Code" and the album captures his last ever recorded performance. Sumlin also posthumously provided inspiration for lead-off single ""Holla"". Petit recalled: "I’m thinking… it’s a shame we’ve got all these people celebrating [Hubert] and he’s not on [Hubert’s Blues]. So I went back to the tape of Hubert and I arranging the song and picked out the bits that might work. And