Enigma Machine to encrypt codes
The Enigma machine is encryption machine In last decades, we have seen and used lots of different technology which can do lots of cool and helpful stuff to make our lives easy as possible but having a technology that can encrypt its really cool and secret way to communicate. In this paper I will provide information on Enigma machine on how it was built what was it used for, who built it and also how it worked. The importance and the value of exchanged encryption of codes was so common and so useful thousands of years ago and also now based on same method of switching letters in alphabets. The most use full of encryption is in big companies, government places, in wars, and anywhere secret should be a big part of the success of their own.
Enigma machine was developed by the German man, and was used in World War 2. It was built in 1918 and used from the early 1920s and latter it was adopted by soldierly and government services of lots of other countries. Arthur Scherbius was the founder of Enigma machine. Scherbius did study in electrical engineering in Hanovr and munich. He invented this cryptographic Enigma machine but this machine was built on Albertis cipher disc but jut an electrical version of it and harder to brake. Arthur Scherbius invention was the most fearsome system in this time and famous now a days. Enigma machine had so many awsome components. The encryption came from this machine was very hard to descript. But after long time it was broken by the team at Bletchley Park.
The Enigma machine is extremely a difficult but more useful cipher machine. It contains of a rotors, reflector, light board, and plug board. The machine came with a number of rotors, each of which rotor controlled a r...
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...machine to encrypt the codes. The machine didn’t last for too many years but it was really easy to use by the Germans but hard to brake by enemies. It made the germen really protected from others enemies to who are trying to crack the secret information. The way Enigma was built was really cool and fun to learn how it scrambled the words more in many ways. Back then building this small devise was also a new thing, even thought it looked like an old type writer. Enigma was built so rarely. And so they are really rare to find and see it in real life. The method of encrypting the code was easy by Germans and so did decrypting. They didn’t have to go through the hassle of writing stuff. Sender and receiver have to know the day and plug-in changed and type the massage in the enigma and the decrypted massage would be printed and this way their information was so secured.
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A clerk in the German government codes department, named Hans Schmidt, who got his job by way of having a senior military commander for a brother. His complicated personal life led him to contact the French intelligence in 1931 and offer to sell them top secret documents for money. Schmidt gave them both the Enigma machine's operating manual and its settings lists. Even with the information, the French and British code breakers at the time could not crack the code, so they contacted the Polish code breakers. The Polish realize that the only way to decipher the Enigma codes was to build an Enigma-like machine, which they do in 1932.
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