El Enigma De Hitler

[Flaviano Bada]

Toeveryone who says that the Poles cracked the code.

The Polish did crack a type of the Engima Code, but, it was at the start of the war. Even before that. The Germans learned of them breaking the code. So, they changed it. So in fact, both the British and the Polish cracked the enigma code.

Dr. Miller at the NSA says the number of combinations was much bigger than the number stated in this article (3 X 10^114). Also, Mariam Rejewski (Polish mathematician) broke the first versions of enigma. Believe it or not, the Germans kept changing the machines to make it more difficult to crack. Both the Poles and the Brits put some great efforts in cracking enigma. Unfortunately, the Brits get most of the credit since the last bombes were made by them and they could crack all enigma codes.

I understood that partial knowledge of the encryption potential result is used to find the machine settings for the day. Is this a deductive or inductive process? Dr. Grime states that it is deductive.

Yes, but the German military invented their own version of the enigma machine. Alan Turing also developed a machine that could decipher the code in under 20 minutes, which helped the British enormously when the Germans changed the settings everyday towards the end of the war.

The people at Bletchley Park recognise the fact that the Poles broke Enigma using mathematicians. They emphasise the point that they showed the way forward to breaking the Engima and Lorentz codes. Without the Poles, the British may have not had the head start they did.

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