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28 unusual facts about Enigma machine|


Abraham Sinkov

It is still unclear how much the American delegation was told about British success against the German Enigma machine, but Sinkov later recalled that they were told about the Enigma problem only a short while before the delegation was to leave, and that details were sketchy.

Alan Turing Memorial

The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954' and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it would appear if encoded by an Enigma machine; 'IEKYF RQMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'.

Alexander Marinesko

Its task was to attack a German headquarters and capture an "Enigma" coding machine.

Arthur Scherbius

Arthur Scherbius (20 October 1878 – 13 May 1929) was a German electrical engineer who patented an invention for a mechanical cipher machine, later sold as the Enigma machine.

C. Lorenz AG

Placed on the commercial market as the Enigma machine, it was adopted by the German Navy and Army in the 1920s The Enigma, however had deficiencies, and the German Army High Command asked Lorenz to develop a new cipher machine that would allow communication by radio in extreme secrecy.

Canada and weapons of mass destruction

Materials included the cavity magnetron which was essential to RADAR, British information related to the German Enigma machines, Jet Engine designs as well as "Tube Alloys".

Danielewicz

:Ludomir Danilewicz - Polish engineer, one of the directors of AVA together with Leonard Danilewicz, helped to break the Enigma Code

Dennis Babbage

During World War II Babbage was the chief cryptanalyst in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, which decrypted German Army and Air Force Enigma messages.

Enigma rotor details

This article contains technical details about the rotors of the Enigma machine.

For more details on how the rotors move, please check the Stepping motion section and the remarks on double-stepping in the Enigma article.

Gisbert Hasenjaeger

Invalided out of the service, he served as assistant to Heinrich Scholz, starting in October 1942, out in Section IVa of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung at Karlstejn, responsible for the security of the Enigma machine, which used by the British to decipher vulnerabilities of the service but escaped

Hans Heidtmann

A British boarding party, consisting of Lieutenant Francis Anthony Blair Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier, and Canteen Assistant Tommy Brown, from destroyer HMS Petard recovered the cryptographic materials, but the U-boat sank before the Enigma cipher machine could be brought out.

HMS Bulldog

She is most famous for the actions of some of her crew in making the first capture of an Enigma machine.

Janusz Różycki

He is the son of Jerzy Różycki, one of the three Polish mathematicians who worked on Enigma decryption from December 1932 through at least the Phoney War (1940).

Jeremy Paxman

Paxman became a focus of media attention in his own right in October 2000 when an Enigma machine, which had been stolen from Bletchley Park Museum, was inexplicably sent to him in the post.

Mary Rees

Her father David Rees was also a distinguished mathematician, who worked on Enigma in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park.

Moskenesøya

Importantly an operational Enigma coding machine was obtained from one of the sunken German patrol ships.

Ottico Meccanica Italiana

OMI produced the OMI cryptograph, a cipher machine similar to the more famous German Enigma.

Pyry

Before World War II, Pyry was also the seat of the Polish General Staff's Cipher Bureau, the agency that before the war was the only one in the world to break the German Enigma cipher (beginning in December 1932).

Ralph Tester

The Lorenz cipher machine had twelve wheels, and was thus most advanced, complex, faster and far more secure than the three-wheeled Enigma.

Rudolf Schmidt

His brother Hans-Thilo Schmidt sold details of the Germans' Enigma machine and other sensitive military information to the French Deuxieme Bureau from 1931 until the German invasion of France in 1940.

Solomon Kullback

He learned at Bletchley Park that the British were producing intelligence of high quality by exploiting the Enigma machine.

Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands

:Argentine embassies used the same, top of the line, Swiss Crypto AG machine systems as their armed forces, so this was the precise equivalent of publicly announcing, during World War II, that the Allies had broken the Enigma system used by the Nazis.

The Bletchley Circle

The women return to Bletchley Park, now a college, where Alice's daughter is studying to take a Typex machine, from the derelict huts, and instead a find an old Enigma machine, but they still have to find a way to inform Customs and Excise about the contraband which includes the trafficked girls.

The Curse of Fenric

(The "ULTIMA machine" of the story is based on the real Enigma machine.) In an interview for the DVD release of this story, Briggs said that since at that time it was not considered appropriate to depict a character's struggle with homosexuality in a family programme, he transformed Turing's frustration at being unable to express his true sexual identity into Judson's frustration at being crippled.

The Fairmont Hamilton Princess

Rumor has it that it was nicknamed 'Bletchley-in-the-Tropics' after the English country house where the Enigma code was broken (Sir William Stephenson, the Canadian-born British spymaster who was the subject of the book and film A Man Called Intrepid resided for a time at the Princess, following the war, before buying a home on the island, and was often visited there by his former subordinate, James Bond novelist Ian Fleming).

Tony Fasson

The codebooks that Fasson, Grazier, and Brown retrieved were immensely valuable to the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, who had been unable to read U-boat Enigma for nine months.

Whitworth Gardens

The cast bronze bench carries in relief the text 'Alan Mathison Turing 1912-1954', and the motto 'Founder of Computer Science' as it would appear if encoded by an Enigma machine: 'IEKYF ROMSI ADXUO KVKZC GUBJ'.


German weather ship Lauenburg

The British cryptologist Harry Hinsley, then working at Bletchley Park realised at the end of April 1941 that the German weather ships, usually isolated and unprotected trawlers, were using the same Enigma code books as were being used on the heavily armed U Boats.

Good–Turing frequency estimation

Good–Turing frequency estimation was developed by Alan Turing and his assistant I. J. Good as part of their efforts at Bletchley Park to crack German ciphers for the Enigma machine during World War II.

Qattara Depression

The German officer stationed in the depression was cited by Gordon Welchman as helpful in the breaking of the Enigma machine code, due to his regular transmissions stating there was "nothing to report".