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The Enigma was a type of enciphering machine used by the German armed forces to send messages securely. Although Polish mathematicians had worked out how to read Enigma messages and had shared this information with the British, the Germans increased its security at the outbreak of war by changing the cipher system daily.
Nov 14, 2014 · Fri 14 Nov 2014 11.23 EST. Like all the best cryptography, the Enigma machine is simple to describe, but infuriating to break. Straddling the border between mechanical and electrical, Enigma...
Artifact Details. Intercepting and translating code gave the Allied forces a strategic advantage over the Germans. During World War II, the Germans used the Enigma, a cipher machine, to develop nearly unbreakable codes for sending secret messages.
