Most people who worked on Enigma codebreaking didn't know the real name of the system, or the scale of the effort being made That contributed to the secret of the breaking of Enigma being kept until the 1970s So "appearing less threatening" is a nonissue The few nations who know, already know, and have better cryptography Nobody else knows During World War II, the Germans used the Enigma machine to develop nearly unbreakable codes for sending messages Credit Greg Goebel The Enigma had three rotors, connected in series They were thick discs, each with 26 input points (one for each letter of the alphabet) and as many output pointsCryptanalytic success in World War II was the breaking of the German ENIGMA machine This cryptodevice was used by all of the German armed forces as the primary cryptosystem for all units below Army level or the equivalent As DDay approached, other German cryptodevices, the SZ42 and the various T52 machines, assumed great
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