The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication...
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radio communications of the Axis powers that had been enciphered using Enigma machines. This yielded military intelligence which, along with that from other...
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List of Enigma machine simulators lists software implementations of the Enigma machine, a rotor cypher device that was invented by German engineer Arthur...
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from the 1920s to the 1970s. The most famous example is the German Enigma machine, the output of which was deciphered by the Allies during World War II...
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contains technical details about the rotors of the Enigma machine. Understanding the way the machine encrypts requires taking into account the current...
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Bombe (section The Enigma machine)
decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secret messages during World War II. The US Navy and US Army later produced their own machines to the same functional...
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Arthur Scherbius (category Cipher-machine cryptographers)
invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma. Scherbius offered unequalled...
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Nazi U-boats have changed one of their code reference books used for Enigma machine ciphers, leading to a blackout in the flow of vital naval signals intelligence...
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special-purpose machine designed around October 1938 by Polish Cipher Bureau cryptologist Marian Rejewski to break German Enigma-machine ciphers. How the machine came...
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Hans-Thilo Schmidt (section Selling Enigma secrets)
codenamed Asché or Source D, was a German spy who sold secrets about the Enigma machine to the French during World War II. The materials he provided facilitated...
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Cipher Bureau (Poland) (section Stalking Enigma)
Enigma (Instructions for Using the Enigma Cipher Machine) and Schlüsselanleitung für die Chiffriermaschine Enigma (Keying Instructions for the Enigma...
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II German U-boat boarded by American submariners to capture her Enigma cipher machine. Although the film was financially successful and received generally...
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Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung, and was responsible for the security of the Enigma machine. Gisbert Hasenjaeger went to high school in Mülheim, where his father...
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Ultra (cryptography) (section Enigma)
the German cipher traffic was encrypted on the Enigma machine. Used properly, the German military Enigma would have been virtually unbreakable; in practice...
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Siemens and Halske T52 (redirect from Siemens Cipher Machine)
by British cryptanalysts. While the Enigma machine was generally used by field units, the T52 was an online machine used by Luftwaffe and German Navy units...
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X, Y & Z (redirect from X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken)
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken is a 2018 book by Dermot Turing about the Enigma machine, which was used by Nazi Germany in World War...
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Peter Twinn (section Enigma)
"huts". The Enigma machine dated back to 1919, when Hugo Alexander Koch, a Dutchman, patented an invention that he called a secret writing machine. Soon Arthur...
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A Polish Enigma "double" was a machine produced by the Polish Biuro Szyfrów that replicated the German Enigma machine. The Enigma double was one result...
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War II, BTM constructed some 200 "bombes", machines used at Bletchley Park to break the German Enigma machine ciphers. The company was formed in 1902 as...
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The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question "Can machines think...
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Known-plaintext attack (category Enigma machine)
ISBN 0-87332-731-4. Geggel, Laura (29 May 2019). "Nazi Code-Making Enigma Machine Is Up for Auction". Live Science. Retrieved 31 August 2020. Singh, Simon...
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cryptologists at Bletchley Park, to decrypt messages enciphered on German Enigma machines. The Zygalski-sheet apparatus takes its name from Polish Cipher Bureau...
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II as a replacement for their Enigma machines. The Swiss became aware that their current machine, a commercial Enigma (the Swiss K), had been broken...
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Bletchley Park (redirect from Bletchley Park (Enigma))
Hugh (2004). Enigma – The battle for the code. London: Cassell Military Paperbacks. p. 129. ISBN 0-304-36662-5. "The Abwehr Enigma Machine" (PDF). Bletchleypark...
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Typex (category Rotor machines)
(alternatively, Type X or TypeX) machines were British cipher machines used from 1937. It was an adaptation of the commercial German Enigma with a number of enhancements...
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be controlled by a program. With reciprocal machine ciphers such as the Lorenz cipher and the Enigma machine used by Nazi Germany during World War II, each...
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powers used a more advanced version of the M-94 called the Enigma Machine. The Enigma Machine was more complex because unlike the Jefferson Wheel and the...
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The Enigma Cipher Centre (Polish: Centrum Szyfrów Enigma) is an interactive multimedia exhibition in Poznan dedicated to the Enigma cipher machine and...
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Marian Rejewski (category Enigma machine)
who in late 1932 reconstructed the sight-unseen German military Enigma cipher machine, aided by limited documents obtained by French military intelligence...
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During World War II the British army is attempting to retrieve an Enigma machine from Germany. Having failed in previous attempts, they decide to send...
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