Enigma code

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Enigma was the cryptographic code used by Nazis to give orders to their armies. It was used by U-boot on the battle againts the British marine: with its key, it was the nigthmare of the Allies.

A must for WWII scenarios with its companion Bletchley Park.

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[Vasili]

Great splash The allies lost many soldiers trying to cathc one of this machines.

 

[showoffsg]

Awsome!!

 

[Ukas]

cool splash, I wanna go watch se7en

 

[Judge_Deadd]

You probably don't know who actually decoded the Enigma Code?!

 

[Ankka]

Nice splash.

 

[rhikdavis]

Originally posted by Judge_Deadd
You probably don't know who actually decoded the Enigma Code?!

Those sassy poles!! Salute!




How the Enigma secret was broken
How the Enigma secret was broken

Each time a new batch of declassifies Enigma decrypts is released to public archives a history of the Second World War should be rewritten. Historians agree that breaking German machine cyphers was the greatest achievement of the Allied intelligence services. Insight into the most secret German correspondence shortened war and saved life of many allied soldiers.

However, authors differ when describing how Enigma codes were broken and by whom. There are various mythical stories which were published in millions copies, mainly in the 70-ties, and now they are sipping through into history. In order to put records straight, SPYBOOKS publishes its 'Enigma File' a collection of reports, notes and comments prepared by Marian Rejewski and other cryptoanalysts of the BS4 - Section 4 of the Polish General Staff Cypher Bureau. There are the only prime source materials available as all pre-war documents related to BS-4 and its Enigma work, were destroyed in September 1939 in order to keep codebreaking successes secret.

Most of documents published in the 'Enigma File' were collected by Col. Wladyslaw Kozaczuk, an author who in 1967 revealed that Enigma was no secret for Allied intelligence services.

Factfile

Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki, Henryk Zygalski and other cryptoanalysts from BS4, broke into Kriegsmarine code in November 1932.

By the end of December 1932 Reichswehr Enigma code was partly broken by Marian Rejewski

Fully decrypted Enigma texts were read by BS4 since mid January 1933.

During Roehm's Putsch in June 1934 Enigma messages were read within minutes from their interception.

During two weeks long cryptographic exercises organised at BS4 in January 1938 up to 75 percent of secret German communication was decrypted within hours from interception.

Wehrmacht correspondence was decrypted as efficiently up to November 1938 and Sicherheitsdienst up to 1st July 1939. Once Chi-Dienst upgraded German Enigmas BS4 lost its possibilities and between November 1938 and Summer 1939 only one in ten Wehrmacht despatch was read.

In July 1939 BS4 shared its secrets with GC&CS and cypher section of the French SR.

In October 1939 evacuated from Poland BS4 codebreakers resumed their work in France as Equipe Z

On 17th January 1940 Equipe Z as the first Allied codebreaking team broke wartime Enigma daily key and immediately passed its findings to Bletchley Park. Bletchley Park began its mass codebreaking work.

Equipe Z was active until November 1942 when Wehrmacht occupied Vichy and German RDF vehicles were spotted near its premise.

In total Poles decrypted Enigma cypher for ten years from December 1932 until November 1942.


http://www.spybooks.pl/en/enigma.html

This concludes today's lesson in History 101.

 

[GIDustin]

Just watched an episode of Spy School that contained this. Great work.

- GIDustin

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Nice work as ever Rufus .

 

[Judge_Deadd]

Originally posted by rhikdavis
Those sassy poles!! Salute!

Is it an insult?

 

[rhikdavis]

I guess you'll have to look up the definition of salute to determine that....but it's not. I love the Polish. Some of my best friends are part Polish.

 

[Mariusz]

Originally posted by rhikdavis
I guess you'll have to look up the definition of salute to determine that....but it's not. I love the Polish. Some of my best friends are part Polish.

I think Judge_Deadd meant the word 'sassy'. What does it mean? I couldn't find it in my dictionary.

 

[rhikdavis]

sas·sy1 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ss)
adj. sas··si·er, sas··si·est

Lively and spirited; jaunty.


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