The breaking of the deemed impossible Enigma Code was perhaps the most pivotal and important moments of World War 2, it shaved years off the length of the war and saved millions of lives that would have otherwise been lost. The code was broken by a British team working under Dilly Knox comprised of mathematicians John Jefferys, Peter Twinn and Alan Turing working at the confidential location of Bletchley Park. Some historians estimate that the “ultra” intelligence produced there shortened the war by 2-4 years and that an allies victory would not have been certain without it. Bletchley Park was made up of a total of 16 different huts and 8 different blocks labelled A-H. These were all assigned different purposes such as communication centre's,…show more content… Its design is made up of mechanical and electrical subsystems. A keyboard, a set of rotating disks called rotors arranged side by side on a spiddle make up the mechanical system. These components form a varying electrical current which powers rotors to move whenever a key is pressed setting up a new configuration. When you pressed a letter on the keyboard a lamp would light up showing the letter that would appear on the cipher. E.g. If you pressed B and the light J lit up, the letter J would represent B on the cipher. You can see why the code was thought to be un-crackable when there are millions of different configurations that produce different ciphers. In total there were just over “159 million million million different combinations” (1) possible for the enigma code. So as you can imagine this was an extremely daunting task for the…show more content… This was thought to be absurd and a waste of time but none the less he was apporved funding for his machine. It was name “the bombe” and it wa supposed to figure out the daily german settings for the enigma machine before the settings changed the following day. The machine was engineered by Harold “Doc” Keen of the British Tabulating company and was about 7 feet high and wide 2 feet deep and weighed roughly a ton. These were mass produced and at its highest point were decrypting over 4,00 messages daily from axis
