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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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    Cryptanalysis of the Enigma ciphering system enabled the western Allies in World War II to read substantial amounts of Morse-coded radio communications...
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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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    example is the German Enigma machine, the output of which was deciphered by the Allies during World War II, producing intelligence code-named Ultra. The primary...
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  • problem: the 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...
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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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    Polish Enigma "double" was a machine produced by the Polish Cipher Bureau that replicated the German Enigma rotor cipher machine. The Enigma double was...
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  • (surname) Asché, a code name of Hans-Thilo Schmidt (1888–1943), German cryptographer who sold information about the Enigma coding machine to the French Asche...
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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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  • Known-plaintext attack (category Enigma machine)
    May 2019). "Nazi Code-Making Enigma Machine Is Up for Auction". Live Science. Retrieved 31 August 2020. Singh, Simon (1999). The Code Book. New York: Arrow...
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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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  • was actually USMC lieutenant Winston Churchill who had stolen an Enigma code machine and then almost single-handedly won a very alternative battle for...
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  • steckered Enigma machines. GC&CS began to discuss Enigma with the French Deuxième Bureau in 1938, obtaining from the Bureau details of Wehrmacht Enigma supplied...
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  • Enigma secret, BBC News, 20 July 2009 "Polish Enigma Double" Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine "The Enigma Code Breach," by Jan Bury Enigma Enigma...
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  • Hasenjaeger Hagelin machine Enigma machine Japanese army and diplomatic codes Japanese naval codes PURPLE JN-25 Cryptanalysis of the Enigma Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher...
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  • modified to resemble a German resupply U-boat, to try to steal the Enigma machine coding device and sink the U-571. Before the crew of S-33 receives its...
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    dialect. One of his duties is to decode messages from base, using the Enigma code machine. Bernd Tauber as Obersteuermann ("Chief Helmsman") Kriechbaum: The...
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    That limitation aided World War II code breakers in cracking Enigma encryption. The comparable WW II U.S. cipher machine, SIGABA, did not include a reflector...
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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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    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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  • codenamed Asché or Source D, was a spy who sold secrets about the German Enigma machine to the French during World War II. The materials he provided facilitated...
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    Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz...
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    of cryptographic machines that were used to encrypt communications between units at the division level. These were the Enigma machine, the teleprinter...
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    HMS Bulldog (H91) (category Enigma machine)
    and in the Arctic. Her most notable actions were the capture of an Enigma machine and codebooks from the U-110 in 1941, sinking another German submarine...
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    communication gear, aerial cameras, cryptographic equipment, an Enigma Code machine, two small drones and a section of the Berlin Wall. The museum's...
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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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  • 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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  • reveals enough of the day's Enigma code that Christopher can quickly decode all the day's messages. After he recalibrates the machine, it quickly decodes a...
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    President Roosevelt, and General Patton. There are also six different Enigma code machines, including the ten-rotor T-52, of which only five are extant; an...
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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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