Cryptanalysis of the Enigma

Alen Turing. Criptogropher from Cambridge who is hired to a group of men to break the Nazis enigma code. However he feels team ates will only slow him down, and after taking control of the group he starts by firing two men who he feels are inadequate for the job. His next step is to find new people to fill there positions by putting out a cross word puzzle to fish for canidates. Jone Clark becomes a part of the group along with another man. The story then flashes back to Allen's childhood where his good friend introduces him to cryptography. Jone decides that she doesn't want to work for the government but after being convinced by Allen she agrees to work in secret with him. Soon Allen is hard at work putting together Christopher (the machine…

The code breaker who saved millions Intro: On September 3rd of 1939, four countries declared war on Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain. That was the beginning of WWII for Britain. One important role they played in the war was the decryption of the Enigma code. The enigma code was first discovered by the Polish who shared the information with the British and the French when they were in fear of attack. When the Polish shared their information with the British about the Enigma,…

This machine developed to the enigma A and B in the early 1920’s but the sheer weight of them (50 kg) meant that they were too heavy for use by the military until the enigma D came out in 1927. The use of a reflector as the fourth motor meant that the enigma machine became much lighter and smaller than it had previously been beforehand. However, the code of the enigma D was broken in 1935 which meant that a front plug board had been introduced in order to scramble the signal further. When a…

In an age of industrial progress and communication mechanisms emerging, the enigma was invented just after World War I. Though Germany believed their machine was "unbreakable", the efforts to find a flaw in their system were ultimately successful. With the state-of-the-art technology and ingenuity of the inventors, the enigma had the potential to give Germany extreme advantages during World War II, but simple mistakes cost the country their machine's success as well as their success in the war. …

Allen Turing. Cracker of the enigma code, father of computer science, and if brought into the 21st century as my classmate in the Arts & Science Program, my best friend. You see, Allen Turing and I have much in common; we both are interested in technology, both have a fondness for biology, and both enjoy riddles. This would lead us to originally bonding over our shared interests. However, after a few weeks of being friends, we would become closer due to our shared experience going through the…

order to fight back against the Nazis, including the scientific community. In 1939, when United Kingdom declared war on Germany, Alan Turing and his team worked together to break the code of the Enigma machine and thus have access to the German military communication ( SOURCE). This essay is about the cryptanalysis of Enigma. In order to clearly explain this process, in this essay I will focus on the Enigma machine, the Bombe Machine and Alan Turing. Before World War II and the Bombe…

In a general level the functions of scrambling and unscrambling messages can be called encryption and decryption, thought depending on which technique is used there exists a more specific vocabulary. The opposite of cryptography is cryptanalysis, the science of breaking codes and ciphers. One of the earliest cryptanalytic techniques is frequency analysis, a process which was first described by “the philosopher of Arabs, al-Kindi” in the ninth century. The basis of this technique is the analysis…

The exploration of the Bombe machine began when both men were improving the machine was said to crack the codes of the earlier version of the Enigma machine potential (Claire Bertrand, and Eleanor Van Heyningen). The Bombe machine wasn’t just one single electromechanical machine that operated on the help of cryptanalysts, but instead there were multiple machines of the same type eventually reaching 200 Bombes in the Bletchley vicinity (Andrew Hodges). The Polish machine Bombe could Bombe was a…

Alan Turing, The Man’s Mind Of Enigma Of Computer Technology, Changed Modern Society, And The Outcome Of WWII In December 1941 Nazi Germany, and Japan declared war on the United States, and though this was a groundbreaking event for everyone, it didn’t stop one man from London. During this given time of war there would be a hero from not the actual war itself, but emerge inside the mind of that person. Thus it impacted everything that was going on, and not just the war, but technology itself.…

After receiving his PhD from Princeton University in 1938, he returned to Cambridge and then took a part-time position with the Government Code and Cypher School, a British code-breaking organization. During World War II, Turing was a leader in wartime code-breaking especially the German ciphers. He worked at Bletchley Park, where he made five major advances in the field of cryptanalysis, including the bombe, an electromechanical device used to help decipher German Enigma encrypted codes and…