2nd October 2019

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Who solved the enigma code first?

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During the Second World War, Alan Turing worked at the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park – the forerunner of GCHQ – where he devised the techniques which cracked the German Enigma code.

Considering this, who actually captured the Enigma machine?

The first capture of a naval Enigma machine with its cipher keys from a U-boat was made on 9 May 1941 by HMS Bulldog of Britain's Royal Navy, commanded by Captain Joe Baker-Cresswell. The U-boat was U-110. In 1942, the British seized U-559, capturing additional Enigma codebooks.

How was the Enigma machine used in ww2?

The Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two.

When was the Enigma code broke?

On this day in 1941, crackerjack British cryptologists break the secret code used by the German army to direct ground-to-air operations on the Eastern front. British experts had already broken many of the Enigma codes for the Western front.

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Who used the Enigma machine?

Enigma was invented by the German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. Early models were used commercially from the early 1920s, and adopted by military and government services of several countries, most notably Nazi Germany before and during World War II.

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Who broke the Enigma code Polish?

From Left: Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki - Codebreakers of the Enigma. The Polish government is calling for recognition for the Polish mathematicians who provided indispensable aid to Alan Turing in cracking the German Enigma code during the Second World War.

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Who was the first person to crack the Enigma code?

"German military texts enciphered on the Enigma machine were first broken by the Polish Cipher Bureau, beginning in December 1932. This success was a result of efforts by three Polish cryptologists, Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski, working for Polish military intelligence.

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Who broke the Enigma code movie?

The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, loosely based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges (which was previously adapted as the stage play and BBC drama Breaking the Code).

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What is the name of the movie about the Enigma code?

The Imitation Game: a movie about the Enigma Machine, Alan Turing and the Bletchley Park code-breakers. Alan Turing did NOT invent the Colossus machine,nor despite the claims of "The Imitation Game", the "Bombe" device featured so prominently in the movie and shown in the above scene.

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Where was the Enigma code cracked?

Bletchley Park. Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II. It housed the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), which regularly penetrated the secret communications of the Axis Powers – most importantly the German Enigma and Lorenz ciphers.

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Who played Alan Turing in the movie?

Benedict Cumberbatch (left) plays British mathematician, computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing (right) in "The Imitation Game." Asked his reaction to The Theory of Everything, its subject, Stephen Hawking, replied, “Broadly true.”

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When was the bombe made?

The Bombes were built by the British Tabulating Company (BTM, later ICL) at Letchworth (UK) under the supervision of Harold 'Doc' Keen [1]. The first machine, called 'Victory', was delivered at Bletchley Park on 18 March 1940.

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Where is the Bombe?

The initial design of the bombe was produced in 1939 at the UK Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing, with an important refinement devised in 1940 by Gordon Welchman. The engineering design and construction was the work of Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company.

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When was the Enigma machine declassified?

The story of Enigma (declassified in the 1970s) is well known, but the story of Tunny, Germany's top-secret cipher machine, was only declassified a few years ago. Most of the cryptographers in the Testery died before they could tell their stories.

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Who broke the Enigma?

Alan Turing

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What was the ultra secret of World War 2?

"Enigma" was an enciphering machine used by Germany during World War II. Enigma machines came in a variety of different flavors: different numbers of rotors, numbers of plugs and different encoding processes across different organizations. "Ultra" was the British codename applied to highly secret signals intelligence.

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What is the German Enigma code?

The Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two.

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When did the public learn about Enigma?

It wasn't until the 1970s that the story of ENIGMA was declassified and Turing could be recognized for his significant contributions to modern computer science, the world of cryptography, and the defeat of the Axis powers in WWII.

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When did Turing crack the Enigma?

Alan Turing and the Battle of the Atlantic. The Bombe was used with success from the summer of 1940 onwards, to break messages enciphered on the simpler Enigma system used by the German Air Force.

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When did Alan Turing get a royal pardon?

Calls for wider action emerged after Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing was given a posthumous royal pardon in 2013 over a conviction in 1952 for gross indecency with a 19-year-old man.

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What is a royal pardon?

In the English and British tradition, the royal prerogative of mercy is one of the historic royal prerogatives of the British monarch, in which he or she can grant pardons (informally known as a royal pardon) to convicted persons. A royal pardon does not itself overturn a conviction.

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Is Alan Turing married?

Personal life. In 1941, Turing proposed marriage to Hut 8 colleague Joan Clarke, a fellow mathematician and cryptanalyst, but their engagement was short-lived. After admitting his homosexuality to his fiancée, who was reportedly "unfazed" by the revelation, Turing decided that he could not go through with the marriage.

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What did Alan Turing do that was so important?

Alan Turing is often called the father of modern computing. He was a brilliant mathematician and logician. He developed the idea of the modern computer and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War he worked for the government breaking the enemies codes and Churchill said he shortened the war by two years.

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