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The following is a comprehensive list of the sites about the ENIGMA Cipher Machine and the Codebreakers: |
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Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II Very interesting 10-part article
originally appeared in the Nautical Brass Magazine. Highly recommended!
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Allied Breaking of Naval Enigma prepared by Ralph Erskine
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Codebreaking and Secret Weapons in World War II at Bill Momsen's Nautical Brass Online site!
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David Hamer's Excellent Site about Cipher Machines, Cryptology, etc.
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Brief Overview of Enigma Cipher
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Enigma Story, a Polish and French View.
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Enigma- German Machine Cipher- "Broken" by Polish Cryptologistsby Brandi Dawn Brown
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The Enigma Cipher in Cryptography
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Geschichte der Kryptografie
Enigma und die Turing-Bombe (in German)
- Side 9 sctningen: Ultra by Lars Winther Christensen
in FAMOS - Fagblad for Aktuar, Matematik, -Rkonomi og Statistik 10. lrgang, nr. 4, maj 1997 (in Dansk)
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Alan Turing Internet Scrapbook
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Enigma and the Turing Bombe
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About Enigma and Its Decryption
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Alan Turing's own look at the Enigma.
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Index of all available Cryptography Programs.
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Museum of National Security Agency (Museum NSA, located in Fort Meade,
Maryland, USA has opened lately some interesting files about intelligence
operations during WWII.)
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The Enigma in the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
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INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE HISTORY STUDY GROUP
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How Mathematics Saved the World: The Allies' decryption efforts during World War II
Written for Dr. David Beatty, History 3300 on January 25, 1998 by Andrew R.W. Sharpe
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Enigma
Text on the official site of the Polish Embassy in London
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NOVA #2615: Decoding Nazi Secrets PBS Air date: November 9, 1999
In the past the viewers had a chance to find out that the PBS Station, is leaning towards the rewriting a history based on the politically correct formula.
In the Decoding Nazi Secrets we can see the PBS's way of explaining the true brilliance of the Polish Cryptographers.
Not a talent nor hard work nor vision, but simply a "luck" was a factor in breaking Enigma cipher:
TONY SALE: Rejewski had a flash of inspiration and he thought,
what about if they've been stupid enough to just use ABCD
as the order round the rotor, and they had, all the multitude
of millions and millions of ways in which they could have scrambled the connection from the keyboard to the entry point, and they'd just chosen ABCD. And Marian Rejewski in desperation tried that, it worked, and suddenly he'd got the internal connections of the whole of the German forces machine.
Bravo, Dr. Tony Sale! How simple was that! Why, then, in desperation the British or French cryptography experts didn't try this simple 'ABCD' way? Why, Dr. Sale, why? Well, I'm going to remind you: not only because the Britain or France had not have the vision, but they didn't have the brilliant enough people, as well. Even Dillwyn Knox had tried to crack the Enigma, but gave up. Admit that, Dr. Tony Sale.
"GC&CS already had a few intercepts and at least one plain text /
ciphertext pair, reputed to have been smuggled
to England by a Polish cipher clerk." (?)
"The early Naval machine was soon worked out
because the Poles had purchased a commercial version." (?)
Now, where Dr. Tony Sale had found the historical fact that some Polish cipher clerk had smuggled the mentioned texts, is unknown. Unknown to everyone, except to Dr. Sale.
Where did Dr. Tony Sale find out that the Enigma Machine was "worked out" because "the Poles had purchased a commercial version" of the Enigma is unknown, too.
I think Dr. Tony Sale doesn't want to remind his audience that the Polish Mathematicians broke the Enigma Machine in as early as 1932. In Dr. Tony Sale's view, the Poles didn't mathematically determind the wirings of the Enigma, they simply "had purchased a commercial version" of the Enigma.
Anyone has heard of the words "biased" or "prejudice"?
Other interesting links
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