The Enigma Machine

[licicaviki]

Three Polish mathematicians decoded Enigma in 1932,,,,,A year after it was created.

[TheBeerNut1]

The Poles outdid the Krauts LOL. The Germans thought it (code) was unbreakable..........the fact that the Poles broke their codes simply warms my heart.

[Mattaboogum]

@TheBeerNut1 true they broke the FIRST codes. The reason why is that the Polish got their hands on the enigma machine in 1929 due to Berlin mistakingly shipping a machine to poland. Diagrams and pictures were made and taken of the machine and then it was sent back to berlin. The polish continuously deciphered messages; however, in 1938 the Germans developed the three rotor enigma machine. World War II was imminent and so the Polish gave the knowledge they knew to the allies. Gj Poland :D

[ScrumptiousStrat]

The three Polish mathematicians broke the commercial version of Enigma in December 1932 but couldn't break the military version in time. They gave all the info they had to British and French intelligence in July 1939. That information was taken to Bletchley Park and given to Dilly Knox, who had been working on Enigma for several years. He made the first break of the military Enigma in January 1940, the info from the Poles were the last few pieces in the puzzle that Knox needed for completion.

[papoocanada]

It was much easier - though complicated - and secure to use TypeX machines .......

[zbyn777]

Polish cryptologists: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zegalski finished in Poznan the department of mathematics of University. In 1932, the most working in Office of Codes of Staff Main Polish Army it pretended them to break the codes of code of German Enigma, perfect wówczas the coding machine and they helped to alter fates II world war making possible with the same the British interview the decoding of intercepted German orders

[ferdovit]

On July 26, 1939, the Cipher Bureau's chiefs, Lt. Col. Gwido Langer and Major Maksymilian Ciężki, the three civilian mathematician-cryptologists, and Col. Stefan Mayer (Polish General Staff intelligence chief), on General Staff instructions, revealed Poland's Enigma-decryption achievements to intelligence representatives of France and Britain.