The enigma code was first broken in 1933 by Polish mathematician and cryptologist Marian Rejewski, with the help of his two fellow colleagues Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Rózyki.
While studying at Poznań University in 1929, Rejewski began attending a cryptology course held by the Polish General Staff’s Cipher Bureau which was only available to the university’s most advanced mathematics students. Soon after he started teaching at Poznań University, he began to work part-time at the Poznań-branch of the Cipher Bureau. Even though the Poznań-branch had been dismantled during the summer of 1932, on the first of September Rejewski had been hired by the Polish Cipher Bureau to assist in deciphering the enigma. The Poles success depended on mathematics, information from a German spy; Hans-Thilo Schmidt, and an enigma machine which had been intercepted in the Polish mail. Despite acquiring an enigma machine, the Poles did not know the rotor wiring, which was a key part of breaking the code. They had found a major error in the German keying procedures, which was that the randomly generated message key was enciphered twice at the beginning of every message. With the attained information, they proceeded to reverse-engineer the machine in an attempt to find the code. The attempt was a success and the Poles were triumphant. They continued decoding the messages until September 1st 1939. With the imminent invasion of Poland, the Polish Cipher Bureau entrusted their information to Britain’s Government Code & Cipher School at Bletchley Park.
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This resulted in the code changing at least once every day and the German enigma machines resetting at
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The sender would type the message in plaintext (not encrypted) and the letters would be illuminated on a glass screen. With the press of each typewriter key the rotor would shift 1/26 of a revolution giving each letter a different encryption each time, which made the code so difficult to crack. Due to the complexity of the code the enigma became very useful for the Germans for radioing messages to u-boats. The cipher was finally broken when the British were able to capture some key documents from a German warship.
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