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Cryptography in WW2

Allie Cox and Anna Zumbar

Cracking Enigma

  • Enigma was impossible to break with human brain power alone
  • Most work done with cracking Enigma was at Bletchley Park in England.
  • Enigma was broken by a highly complex electromechanical device called a Bombe

Japanese Code Book

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AlanTuring

The Enigma Machine

Operation Magic

Nazi Germany and Japan

  • Alan Turing is known as the father of artificial intelligence because of his work on the Bombe.
  • Nazi Germany knew of American interference with Japanese messages
  • Germany withheld this information from Japan until later for tactical reasons
  • Germany helped Japan create secure messages and gave them a copy of the Enigma Machine
  • Secret American operation of monitoring Japanese messages and deciphering
  • Codes included "Red", "Blue", and "PURPLE"
  • Began in WWI when an Imperial Japanese code book was intercepted
  • Coding machine created by the Germans to keep military messages secret
  • Codes could change at least once a day
  • 159 million million million code possibilities

The Enigma Machine

Cracking Enigma

  • The Bombe was created by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman
  • The Bombe searched through all Enigma code possiblities to rreduce the number of possible settings

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