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Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:07:14 -0500

I have seen other ENIGMA machines but never understood them before now. The WWII German military provided 3 to 5 encoding wheels for each machine and a log book of new settings for each day. The operator then pushed the letter keys and the wheels and setting determined which letter above the keys would illuminate. These letters were then transmitted by traditional keyed code or even telephone. The Benedict Cumberbatch movie, The Imitation Game, gives too much credit to Alan Turing for cracking the code and not enough to an earlier, underresourced team of Polish cryptographers.