Following Enigma
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The Enigma machine was a series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines created in 1918 and used commercially and by the military. Polish, French, and English scientists worked to decrypt Enigma messages in the early 1920s, with three Polish students solving the mystery of how Enigma encoded messages in 1932. As the Germans learned their messages were not secure, they improved the machine and encryption methods, requiring the Allies to continue working to decrypt messages during World War II from centers like Bletchley Park. Thanks to the efforts of Polish, English, and French scientists, the Allies were ultimately able to read messages encrypted by Enigma by the end of the war.
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Following Enigma
- 1. Following Enigma The history of the most famous cipher machine in the world
- 2. What was the Enigma? It was a series of electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines, created by Arthur Scherbius and produced since 1918. The name Enigma comes from Greek word ainigma, which means a riddle. Enigma was very fast. It was used for commercial and military usage.
- 3. How did it look like?
- 4. Decrypting Enigma People worked to discover the mystery of Enigma from the early twenties until 1932. The French, English and Polish scientists had a lot of difficulties with finding the way Enigma codes each message, because each letter was ciphered with another set of the letters from the alphabet. Among the scientist were mainly the mathematicians and linguists.
- 5. In 1929 in the Polish town called Pozna a course of decrypting messages was organised. Three Maths students: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy R坦甜ycki and Henryk Zygalski took part in it.
- 6. The boys were very talented in Maths. They solved the mystery of Enigma after three years from the beginning of the research, in 1932. Since that time Polish government and soldiers were able to decrypt German messages. When the Germans got to know that the way Enigma codes messages is not a mystery anymore, they decided to create new versions of the machine. They also tried to create new sets of cryptographs to code the information. Since 1939 English and French scientists were involved into decoding Enigmas messages.
- 7. The centre of decoding in Bletchley Park, Great Britain.
- 8. Thanks to the work of Polish, English and French scientists it was possible to read each message coded with the use of Enigma at the end of World War II. Decrypting one German message took 1 2 days.
- 9. Where can you see Enigma? Poland Muzeum Techniki and Muzeum Wojska Polskiego in Warsaw, Muzeum Wojska in Biaystok, Muzeum Or甜a Polskiego in Koobrzeg All over the world Munchen (Germany), Fort Meade (USA), Canberra (Australia), Bletchley Park (UK) Many Enigma machines are the possession of individual people
- 10. Enigma from Muzeum Techniki, Warsaw
- 11. The statue of Polish cryptologists, Pozna
- 12. THE END