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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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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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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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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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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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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