Enigma machine

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The Enigma machine was a German electro-mechanical cipher device used extensively during World War II, whose codes were famously broken by Allied cryptanalysts.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cipher machine
electro-mechanical device
encryption device
codeBrokenBy Alan Turing
Bletchley Park
British Government Code and Cypher School
linked to: Bletchley Park

Dilly Knox
Gordon Welchman
Henryk Zygalski
Jerzy Różycki
Marian Rejewski
Polish Cipher Bureau
countryOfOrigin Germany
developedBy Arthur Scherbius
displayedAt Bletchley Park museum
linked to: Bletchley Park

Imperial War Museum
National Museum of Computing
encryptionType polyalphabetic substitution cipher
symmetric-key cipher
hasComponent entry wheel
lampboard
plugboard
reflector
rotor
hasVariant Abwehr Enigma
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Army Enigma
Navy Enigma
commercial Enigma
linked to: Enigma
historicalImpact shortened World War II for the Allies
significant in history of cryptography
influenced Allied cryptanalytic techniques
Bombe
influencedBy earlier rotor machines
inputFormat alphabetic plaintext
introducedIn 1920s
notableFor codes broken by Allied cryptanalysts
role in World War II cryptography
use by Nazi Germany
operatedBy keyboard
operatedInLanguage German
outputFormat alphabetic ciphertext
patentedIn 1918
powerSource electricity
usedBy German intelligence services
German military
Kriegsmarine
Luftwaffe
Wehrmacht
usedFor diplomatic communications
military communications
naval communications
usedIn World War I
World War II
uses daily key settings
plugboard wiring
rotating substitution alphabets
rotor wiring
stepping mechanism

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Enigma machine hasVariant Abwehr Enigma
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Polish Bomba kryptologiczna targetCipher German Enigma
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