Codenamed Ultra Essay

Codenamed Ultra by the British military intelligence because of its highest security classification. Many people that signed on to be apart of Ultra had to sign the Official Secret Acts and were told that they were going to be breaking German encrypted messages. The job of the people involved were to break high-level encrypted messages sent through the German military, using the Enigma as a form of communication during World War II. In order to accomplish the utmost important task of cracking Germany's Enigma machine people like Joseph R. Desch and Alan Turing moved to improve and polish Poland’s successful attempt to imitate the Enigma with the bombe. Poland shared the bombe with the British and French on July 1939. This resulted in the British bombe which worked like 36 Enigma machines linked and operating in reverse. To track possible letter pairings of cipher and plain text, Bletchley technicians wired drums, or commutators, to spin at high speed, …show more content…
This more advanced machine was faster and fully automatic because it used Baudot-Murray teleprinter codes. Nicknamed Tunny by the British at Bletchley they invented the Colossus. Using the Colossus, which was the world’s first electronic digital computing machine. Colossus was created at Bletchley on December of 1943 under the supervision of Max Newman, and consisted of 1,500 vacuum-tube circuits that served as an internal electronic memory; eventually the Colossus had 2,400 vacuum-tube circuits by July 1, 1944. The ability for the Colossus to decrypt Hitler’s message was crucial to the Allies success on D-Day. One decrypted message from Hitler revealed that he was oblivious to the Normandy invasion, which made it a true blitz attack, contributing directly to the success of