Posted on 12/15/2020 8:40:27 AM PST by PAUL09
Nazi Operated Enigma Machine Retrieved In Baltic Sea Recovery of the centuryâs long lost-quintessential mechanical encryption machine: The Enigma code machine was made in the cold Baltic Sea in Europe nearly three centuries 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.
HOW ENIGMA CODE WAS USED DURING WORLD WAR-II? The Enigma machine is an authentication device evolved and utilized in the mid-20th century to safeguard industrial, political, armed, and economic information. It was commonly used by Nazi Germany during the Second World War, in all divisions of the German Army.
The machine allowed gazillions of ways to encrypt a data/statement, making it extremely tricky for other European countries during the war to decode German codes, thus securing themselves from foreign invasion and prevent attacks.
RETRIEVAL OF THE MACHINE DEEPER INTO THE BALTIC SEA : When a team of divers was given a task, based on the nature conservancy of the World Wildlife Fund unexpectedly found a mysterious object in northern Germanyâs Bay of Gelting while trying to collect old fishing nets. They obtained what was supposedly deemed to be a typical typewriter.
The team immediately grasped and contacted the authorities that they had uncovered a historic artifact. Allied troops fought tooth and nail during the war to decode the codes generated by the Enigma machine, which were constantly updated, to obtain crucial information about the activities of German soldiers.
But it was suggested to be what was long lost enigma code machine used during world war-II on extensive research being carried out by marine archaeologist Florian Huber at Bletchley Park.
âAs per the Imperial War Museums, English mathematician Alan Turing was vital to the efforts to crack the German Navyâs Enigma messages in 1941, which were much more complicatedâ
The achievement assisted the Allies in decoding crucial radio communications regarding German military activities.
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The milestone assisted the Allies in decrypting important coded messages concerning German military activities, setting a war to an end and saving the lives of millions of people; Turing and his teamâs story was rendered into a 2014 movie titled The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, an Oscar-nominated UK actor.
The divers pledged to fund the machine in a museum where it could be preserved and exhibited.
Surviving Enigma machines are rare in 2020, but specimens can be found in museums spread all over the world. The reconstruction process for the discovery is expected to take around a year.
Evidently my sarcasm was lost on you. Perhaps I should have included the /s.
Obviously a recent college grad. Totally missed the history of the Enigma and how the Poles and Brits, followed by the U.S., cracked the entire Enigma code and the machines. Also, why the reference to archaeologists finding such a machine three centuries from now, when the elements would have destroyed the machine? Equally important, the things are in museums today.
>>>Dominion is the new Enigma<<<
Actually, it’s the new Skynet.
To answer you, I’ll have to defer to what my father (WWII Airborne, combat vet, twice wounded) said many year ago.
“We hated the SS. Die hard Nazis. Never took them prisoner unless ordered to. The regular Wermacht guys didn’t bother us... but the SS, nope. Done.”
Clearly he - a man who was there and had seen them up close and fought them - made a distinction. So that was always my understanding as well. There were “Nazis”, and then there were “German Soldiers” to him. He also was part of a unit tracking down die-hards after the surrender. So again, I’ll defer to his distinction.
“Nazi” is the acronym for “National Socialist German Worker’s Party” - a political organization. Not all German soldiers, Luftwaffe, or Kreigsmarine personnel were Nazi party members. The SS on the other hand, for the most part, were.
As far as the Red Army - Not all Red Army soldiers were die-hard commies, either; if they were, then Stalin wouldn’t have needed to have NKVD commissars placed throughout the ranks, nor entire units of NKVD diehards to “police” the rank and file, rat out “defeatists”, and otherwise make life miserable for folks.
In other words - you have your fanatics (the minority), and then you have ordinary folk (the majority) caught up and forced into a situation they’d probably rather NOT be in, but are there nonetheless.
And it had 630,000,000,000 votes for Biden in Minnesota alone.
“More pages != better.”
Nobody tell Stephen King.
I didn’t realize that WW2 was 3 centuries ago. Boy am I old.
Thanks. I’ll add it to my reading list.
Thanks. I’ll add it to my reading list.
I wrote a software implementation of the Data Encryption Standard in the 1980’s for Control Data Corporation.
Enigma machines are rare in 2020, but specimens can be found in museums spread all over the world.
I think they only captured like five or six of them during the war (may be mistaken on the exact number, but I know it wasn’t a lot).
Like another poster said, this article may have been a translation... but yeah... :^) Needs some “minor editing”...
Stop being Racis!!!
Didn’t all German military forces swear an oath of allegiance directly to Hitler?
thats the characters name in batman game
it might be spelled nygma- not sure- ed Nygma- a playo n enigma- He’s a riddler like character but does weird puzzles to solve
I first learned of Enigma when I read Winterbotham’s book The Ultra Secret. The information had only recently been declassified.
It was a good read.
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