Enigma

Enigma number one

If I could start, this is the Enigma decoding machine.

Alan Turing lead the effort there to break the Enigma Code.

Enigma was the most widely used cypher code by the Nazis.

The Enigma was designed so that an input letter would never encrypt to itself.

And Alan Turing built machines that could be used to break the Enigma Code.

The Bombe was multiple Enigma rotors chained together, allowing it to rapidly test different key settings.

For two parties to communicate using the Enigma, it required that they first shared the daily key settings.

Near the end of the war, the Enigma could be set up in over 150 million million million ways.

During the war, they continually tried to increase the key space of the Enigma, in order to make it stronger.

They were built for one very specific task, for doing a calculation that was useful for breaking Enigma encrypted messages.

During World War Il, one of the most important encryption technologies used by the German military was known as the Enigma.

But we can also look at an Enigma machine from the Nazis in World War II that was a coding and decoding machine.

This gave the German confidence that the allies, even if they have the copy of the Enigma, could never check all possible key settings.

When Chris invited me to speak, he said, people think of you as a bit of an enigma, and they want to know what drives you a bit.

I mean he found you kind of an enigma at your school he said, you're either going to be a millionaire or go to prison, and I'm not sure which.

This would have prevented the reverse engineering of the rotor wirings, and if the Enigma allows the letters to be encrypted to themselves, the Bombe couldn't have taken advantage of crypts, and this would require the allies to check the entire key space, which was impossible even with the fastest computer.

Moore's Law was just the last part of that, where we were shrinking transistors on an integrated circuit, but we had electro mechanical calculators, relay based computers that cracked the German Enigma Code, vacuum tubes in the 1950s predicted the election of Eisenhower, discreet transistors used in the first space flights and then Moore's Law.

wait, dr. peterson. aren't they going to operate on mrs. hendricks? no. an operation isn't the answer in her case. how will she ever see again? she'll see again. it will just take her a little longer. enigma draped in hospital sheets in self imposed darkness with the added sobering thought that claire hendricks is perfectly correct in her own diagnosis. take it as a warning, a cry for humanity or a simple plea for responsibility from the dark places of the twilight zone.