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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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  • 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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    widespread use in the 1920s–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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  • 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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  • domain Enigma (company), a New York–based data-technology startup Enigma machine, a family of German electro-mechanical encryption machines Enigma, the...
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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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    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 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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    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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    Alan Turing (category Enigma machine)
    pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a crucial role in cracking intercepted...
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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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  • German submarine boarded by American submariners to capture her Enigma cipher machine. Although the film was financially successful and received generally...
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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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    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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    Bletchley Park (category Enigma machine)
    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu. Cretu had released several solo records, collaborated...
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