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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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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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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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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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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Cipher Bureau (Poland) (section Stalking Enigma)
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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Alan Turing (category Enigma machine)
pre-war Polish bomba method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. He played a crucial role in cracking intercepted...
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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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Hans-Thilo Schmidt (section Selling Enigma secrets)
codenamed Asché or Source D, was a German spy who sold secrets about the Enigma machine to the French during World War II. The materials he provided facilitated...
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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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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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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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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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Dilly Knox (section Commercial Enigma)
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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X, Y & Z (redirect from X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken)
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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Siemens and Halske T52 (redirect from Siemens Cipher Machine)
by British cryptanalysts. While the Enigma machine was generally used by field units, the T52 was an online machine used by Luftwaffe and German Navy units...
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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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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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Known-plaintext attack (category Enigma machine)
ISBN 0-87332-731-4. Geggel, Laura (29 May 2019). "Nazi Code-Making Enigma Machine Is Up for Auction". Live Science. Retrieved 31 August 2020. Singh, Simon...
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Berlin Spy Museum (section Enigma)
to update and improve the Enigma machine in the belief that it would be more secure. One of the models of the Enigma machine, initially used by the German...
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