doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(11)61202-5The second world war Allies captured a German Enigma code machine 70 years ago – but one message has never been decoded, says MacGregor CampbellMacGregor CampbellThe New Scientist
In the age before digital electronics and computers, code breaking the ciphered messages produced by the Enigma machine was almost impossible even if the code breaker had a working copy of the Enigma machine, as long as he didn't know the right combination of initial electric and mechanical se...
Each captured machine and codebook provided valuable insights into the German coding system and helped uncover the intricate details of the Alpha settings. Conclusion: By employing a combination of mathematical analysis, the Bombe machine, and a relentless pursuit of Enigma machines and codebooks, the...
The capture was completed at 1245 hours, yielding an Enigma cipher machine and code book. 10 May 1941 German submarine U-110, captured by HMS Bulldog on the previous day, sank while being towed toward Iceland. Her Enigma cipher machine and code book, however, had already been retrieved by...
It was a really good encryption system, and for the longest time, the Allies had a difficult time cracking the code. However, thanks to brilliant code breakers, a powerful computing machine, and German mistakes, the Allies were finally able to break the code. ...
Inner secrets of Enigma: Unique images from inside an Enigma machine have revealed new insights about its complex mode of functioning He was to play a peripheral role in the seizing of the first Enigma codebooks from a captured German U-boat. Man who dodged bullets to seize Enigma codes; BO...
In this context, subcortical shape analysis may be a more sensitive method to identify more localized effects in subdivisions in subcortical regions that were not captured by the volumetric analysis of subcortical regions in the first paper from the ENIGMA MDD consortium35. To address this, we ...
According to his biographer, Ralph Erskine: "Documents captured in the spring led to breakthroughs which enabled Hut 8 to solve the main Kriegsmarine cipher, codenamed Dolphin by GCCS, from August onwards. Alexander was outstanding at a Bayesian probability system invented by Turing, called Ban...
the account of the capture of the German U-505 submarine in David Kahn's bookThe Codebreakersfrom 1967 notes not only that a German cipher machine was captured along with its monthly keys, but that messages on machines of this type were already being read, "with the help of a mass of ...
There is currently available a feature film -- "U-571" -- about how the Americans captured a vital machine used in Enigma, instead of the Brits who actually accomplished the job. As an American, I feel befouled. The KaEl of that U-boat, by the way, knew that the submarine and its ...