Posted on 03/22/2021 10:36:24 AM PDT by PAUL09
Nazi Operated Enigma Machine Retrieved In Baltic Sea
Centuryâs long lost-quintessential mechanical encryption machine-the Enigma code machine was recovered in the cold Baltic Sea in Europe nearly 75 years after its drastic beneficial purpose had been served during the second world war.
Having been said that during the ending period of World War II, the machine was abandoned deep into the sea by German to keep it out of reach of the allies. WHAT IS AN ENIGMA CODE? The Enigma code machine. ( image source )
Enigma machines also used a form of substitution encryption. Substitution encryption is a simple way to decipher messages, but these codes are very easy to crack. The Caesar cipher is a good example of a substitution encryption scheme. The Caesar cipher transfers several positions for each letter of the alphabet.
For example, A Caesar cipher with a shift of 1 would encode P as a Q, and Z as an A, and many more. Similarly with a shift of 5 would encode A as F, M as R, and so on.
That’s also how we broke the Japanese code. Some guy on an island broadcasting “Nothing to report” several days in a row
They also figured out that Midway was going to be attacked by sending an open message that was caught by the Japanese, then repeated “AP” had its water desalination device broken.
What's really weird is that the author's name on the prior post was Joyce Williams, while the author's name now is simply "Paul." And the article looks like it was written by an algorythm
I noticed that.
We visited Bletchley Park a few years ago- quite interesting.
I agree, it is/was a terrific movie. Most interesting how, after we broke the code, we were not aggressive in meeting Nazi actions for fear they might find out what we found out. Same principle is likely in play to this day, leaving in question what is the most effective way to deal with enemies who fancy themselves secretive.
Yes, and one of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century. He died at the age of 42, robbing the world of who knows what kinds of breakthroughs years or even decades before they were eventually discovered.
Without Turing, who knows how much longer the war would have lasted. What happened to him is one of the greatest travesties to befall a bona fide hero of liberty and freedom in the 100-years.
BFL
Wow
The nazis are still operating a code machine.....
And from the bottom of the ocean.....
They’d have to be what, as old as Joy Behar?
My impression is that the analog computer could have broken the code even without knowing the key words. But it would have taken a super long time to do so. Maybe even years because the those analog computers were so slow. Knowing the key words greatly reduced the amount of time needed to break the codes which were also changed on a regular basis. Which means starting over even if you did break the previous code.
I imagine that with today’s computers then it would be child’s play to break those codes in minutes or seconds even without knowing the existence of key words.
How bad was the movie in terms of excessive focus on Turing’s homosexuality? I thought it would be endless preaching, so I never watched it.
Never thought I’d see one, but was surprised to see an Enigma Machine here in Virginia Beach at the Pungo Air Museum. They also have a German V-1 Buzz Bomb and about 100 German, Russian and Allied WW 1&2 aircraft. Cool place to visit if you are ever down this way.
“AF”......If memory serves.
“AF”..you’re right, I’m wrong.
damn, wonder what THAT cost?
well... that’d do it. same as AF at Midway
but to be fair, those words basically were the codekey...
sans that, well
leave it to the Germans to be so strict as to xmit HH only to have it come back and bite them in the arse
Poland actually got possession of one. They sent it to England 2 weeks before the war started.
Building on the Poles’ work cut at least a year off Turing and Bletchley’s ability to break the Enigma code. And how many countries would have shared such a precious secret even with close allies as the Poles did with the French and British?
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