Enigma was the Germans’ most sophisticated ... He headed the ‘Hut 8’ team at Bletchley, which carried out cryptanalysis of all German naval signals. This meant that – apart from during ...

However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering ... explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park. Peter Westcombe, founder ...

After enemy messages were intercepted, it was the task of these systems and the cryptanalysis experts to decipher them as quickly as possible. With the introduction of the Enigma machine by the ...

But perhaps the more important machines to come out of cryptanalysis during that era were Turing’s electromechanical Bombe, because it cracked Enigma, and the vacuum-tube-based Colossus ...

But there were weak points. The Enigma is simply a swapping machine of an advanced type. All Enigmas of the same model, set up in the same way, will produce identical swaps. In any position where ...

However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering ... explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park. Peter Westcombe, founder ...