Hut 8 was a section at Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Museum of Computing...

 (the British World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 codebreaking station) tasked with solving German naval Enigma

Enigma machine

An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I...

 messages. The section was led initially by Alan Turing

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...

. He was succeeded in November 1942 by his deputy, Hugh Alexander

Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, CMG, CBE was an Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War II, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for over 20 years...

.

Hut 8 was partnered with Hut 4, which handled the translation and intelligence analysis of the raw decrypts provided by Hut 8.

After 2005, Hut 8 was renovated to its wartime condition and houses the "HMS Petard Exhibition".

Personnel

• Harry Golombek
  Harry Golombek
  Harry Golombek OBE , was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. He became a grandmaster in 1985.He was the chess correspondent of The Times...
  
  
• I. J. Good
  I. J. Good
  Irving John Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After World War II, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester...
  
  
• Peter Hilton
  Peter Hilton
  Peter John Hilton was a British mathematician, noted for his contributions to homotopy theory and for code-breaking during the Second World War.-Life:Hilton was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School...
  
  , January 1942 to late 1942
• Leslie Lambert (aka "A. J. Alan")
• Rolf Noskwith
  Rolf Noskwith
  Rolf Noskwith was a British cryptographer in World War II.He worked in Hut 8 at Bletchley Park on German naval Enigma traffic from 1941 to 1945, and subsequently on other ciphers. He recalled that most people were addressed by their first name there; the two exceptions were Alan Turing, known as...
  
  
• Shaun Wylie
  Shaun Wylie
  Shaun Wylie was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.-Early life:Wylie was born in Oxford, England, the fourth son of Sir Francis Wylie, later the first Warden of Rhodes House in Oxford. He was educated at Dragon School and then Winchester College...
  
  
• Leslie Yoxall
  Leslie Yoxall
  Albert Leslie Yoxall was a British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. He devised a method to assist in solving Enigma messages which was dubbed Yoxallismus. After the war he worked at GCHQ until the mid-1970s.-Early life:Yoxall was born in Salford, and was the youngest out of four...