CRACKING the EnigmaThe article focuses on the Enigma machine used by German forces during World War II.Ward, R. BruceCobblestone
“The Red Machine” is a lean, intense thriller about a disgraced spy for the U.S. Navy and a jailed safecracker who team up to steal the secret of the Japanese version of Enigma, the Nazi cryptography machine. It’s set in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s when Japan and the United...
If you had a three-rotor Enigma machine, taken from a set of five rotors and ten letter pairs connected in the plugboard, there would be almost 159 quintillion possible settings for the device. Decrypting the device would be doing the exact opposite. You would set the machine to that day’...
including the Enigma machine, whose cracking helped the Allies gather critical information on German intelligence in World War II; and work currently being done by the government, such as in the National Security Agency. Readers also will learn about unsolved codes and ciphers throughout history, ...