Enigma and the Bombe The main focus of Turing's work at Bletchley was in cracking the 'Enigma' code The Enigma was a type of enciphering machine used by the German armed forces to send messages securely Although Polish mathematicians had worked out how to read Enigma messages and had shared this information with the British, the Enigma key broken On , British cryptologists help break the secret code used by the German army to direct groundtoair operations on the Eastern front British and Polish experts had Enigma was a highly anticipated cipher machine used by the Germans during the Second World War It was used to transmit extremely secretive and important coded messages The machine used more than a billion ways to encode a message, therefore made it almost impossible to crack the German code during the Second World War
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