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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Enigma (Instructions for Using the Enigma Cipher Machine) and Schlüsselanleitung für die Chiffriermaschine Enigma (Keying Instructions for the Enigma...
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  • 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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    composed his Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, popularly known as the Enigma Variations, between October 1898 and February 1899. It is an orchestral...
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    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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    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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  • Enigma is a 1995 novel by Robert Harris about Tom Jericho, a young mathematician trying to break the Germans' "Enigma" ciphers during World War II. Jericho...
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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Alan Turing (category Enigma machine)
    pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. He played a crucial role in cracking intercepted...
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  • enciphered on Enigma machines. The process used sequential conditional probability to infer information about the likely settings of the Enigma machine. It gave...
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  • machine encryption, the rotor machine, although he was not the first to do so. He is sometimes erroneously credited as the originator of the Enigma machine;...
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    Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma-machine ciphers before and during World War II. Zygalski was born on 15 July...
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