The Enigma code was created by the Nazis as a way to encrypt their messages because the Germans could not risk having their military information being “given” to the Allies, since the Allies were able to intercept a majority of them. Whenever plaintext would be typed into the keyboard, an electrical current would run through the rotors and be reflected back through the rotors by the reflector. The rotor, a circular disk that could change it’s position in the machine, had twenty-six pins, for the alphabet, on one side and the other side had twenty-six copper contacts. These contacts were wired together, creating a so called “maze”. Each machine would use at least three of these rotors and at most five for changing each letter from its original.
