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Two dutch naval officers invented a machine to encrypt messages.
This became known as the Enigma machine. -
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In the year 1918 Arthur Scherbius was a german businessman, stopped anyone copying the enigma machine. -
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The mid 1920's a mass production of the enigma machine were being produced and being sold to the German military.
This was over 2 decades. -
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The polish set up a crypt analysis bureau and hired leading mathematicians such as Marian Rejewski. -
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Marian Rejewski built his own model of the Enigma machine without having actually seen it. -
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To find the daily key, Rejewski build 6 replicas of the Enigma machine and connected them. -
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A German traitor told Rejewski that the Germans routinely changed the daily key indicator setting for the codes. -
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To find the daily key, Rejewski build 6 replicas of the Enigma machine and connected them. -
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The Poles asked their allies, Britian and France to help them with the analysis and codebreaking of the German messages. -
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The British smuggle out the Enigma replica machines two weeks before Germany invaded Poland -
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The smuggled Enigma replicas were taken to the British code . and cypher school at Bletchley Park. -
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Alan Turing, a British mathematician at Bletchley Park thought of a different way of using the ‘bombs’ for testing the German codes. -
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Hundreds of code breakers at Blechley Park worked round the clock to decipher the German Enigma communications they intercepted. -
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Turing used 180 ‘bombs’ which clicked round letter-by-letter, 20 every second, until they hit the correct one. -
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Hundreds of code breakers at Blechley Park worked round the clock to decipher the German Enigma communications they intercepted -
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Colossus could read paper tape at 5,000 characters a second. -
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Colossus changed the way code breaking was done from electro-mechanical to electronic – it was the first modern day computer -
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The Allied work on codebreaking played a key role in victories such as D-Day. It shortened the length of WW2.