Essays Tagged: "Enigma machine"

Sources work on the enigma machine.

ow the results' of their activities. Such care was taken because if the German's found out that the Enigma had been cracked, they would tighten up on procedures or change the codes and all the good wo ... and E. how useful are D and E in helping you to understand how Bletchley Park was able to break the enigma codes?Source D describes the work, which was done in Hut 3, 'they had to translate them into ...

(5 pages) 28 0 3.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril" Winston Churchill. Discuss

there control of the attack would be directed by a homing signal. All this was coded using the Nazi Enigma machine. Losses to the British Merchant fleet were alarming; at the end of October 1940 convo ... jor break through by British code breakers. With luck and a year of constant hard work, the 'Hydra' Enigma cipher had been cracked at Bletchley Park, and with the later capture of U110 and the discove ...

(9 pages) 40 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

A creative essay dealing with the many faces of tragedy throughout wars, illness and natural disaster.

ing various methods of communicating secretly with its military personnel. Germany had invented the Enigma machine which was capable of encoding messages in such a way that it was next to impossible i ... lted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. This continued until the British cracked the Enigma code and was finally able to put an end to the tragedy and genocide. Due to the war, this led ...

(2 pages) 21 0 2.5 Jul/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Mathematics and the Enigma Machine

Justin FleckPeriod 7The Enigma MachineUp till the Second World War, the most advanced forms of encryption involved simple pa ... machine to encrypt messages. This encryption tool became one of the most notorious of all time: the Enigma cipher machine. Arthur Scherbius, a German businessman, patented the Enigma in 1918 and began ... mbling elements of the machine and light up a cipher text letter on the "lamp board". What made the Enigma machine so special was the fact that every time a letter was pressed, the movable parts of th ...

(2 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II