Enigma Machine

A detailed Summary of Enigma Machine

The German Light Cruiser "Magdaboard" ran around the Baltic sea, the

Russians that were in that area captured the ship and found in it the German

Navy Secret code book. The British used it to decode German Navel messages,

so that they would know what the German's were going to do next.

When the war was over the British told the world that they had found the

Germans code book, which made the Germans realize that code books were not

a good way of getting such important messages around. So they decided that

In Berlin man made an encoding machine available on the market, named

the Enigma Variations. You press a letter on the keyboard and a different letter is

typed. Each time you press that letter the letter that comes out changes. It has

so many approximately 3(10114) different variations.

The Polish had the insight that the codes could be deciphered by

mathematicians. Bartramp photographed the keys to break Enigma's codes, and

sold them to the Polish. The Germans later added two more roters, and they

found out that they needed help, so they brought a bunch of really smart people

to move by one position whenever the notch passes by the indicated letter. The

cipher devices" [Kozaczuk]. This machine looks alot like a typewriter, but it has

effect of this rotation is that after each letter is encrypted, an entirely new letter

if any of them could find a way to break the codes.

rotors. For example if you press the letter A it may give out the letter C, then if

map associated with it, and because the rotors are moved with each letter, the

message and come up with every possible out come for it. And all they would

of the rotor, that positioning would be a performance of a simple mapping cipher.

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