Enigma code
Wartime German encryption
The Enigma code was the encryption system used by Nazi Germany during World War II, produced by the Enigma machine—an electromechanical device with rotating cipher wheels.
Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park, including Alan Turing, cracked the system, gaining intelligence that significantly shortened the war.
They intercepted messages encoded with Enigma.
- cipherHidden writing system
- secret messageCovert transmitted information
- keyLock-opening device
- World War IISecond global military conflict
- war effortOrganized wartime resource mobilization
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- codespassword, binary, DNA, RNA, passcode
- Polish Historypartitions, Piast dynasty, Pulaski, September 1939, Warsaw Ghetto
- cipherscipher, Caesar cipher, substitution cipher, ciphertext, plaintext
- Nazi GermanyAdolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazi, Nazis, Nazi Party
- submarine warfaresubmarine, submarines, torpedo, U-boat, sonar
- German NavyGerman Navy, U-boat, U-boats, Bismarck, Deutschland
cryptographic security
Enigma codeplaintext
Unencoded readable information
cleartext · open communication · plain language · Caesar cipher · public broadcast