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QUESTION The German World War II encoding machine was called Enigma by British Intelligence. What did the Germans call it?
IN 1918, German electrical engineer Arthur Scherbius filed a patent for an enciphering machine to provide secure communications for the banking industry.See the full content of this document
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Riddle of the Enigma
Text was entered on a typewriter-style keyboard, causing a battery generated current to be manipulated via a series of wheels or rotors and to eventually illuminate a substitute or enciphered letter on a lightboard.
Critically, the machine worked on t...See the full content of this document
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