Breaking through the Enigma:
Traversing through the Unbreakable Code
Origin
The Enigma started out with the invention of the router-based machine. There were many different types, but the one that out-dates the others was created by Theo A van Hengel and RPC Sprengler. Two dutch naval officers that produced cipher machines for the Dutch War Department in 1915.
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Theo A van Hengel
RPC Sprengler
Dr. Arthur Scherbius
Dr. Arthur Scherbius, a German engineer, was the creator of the very first enigma. His idea and prototype came to him in 1918. It was named the Enigma in the 1920's. The Enigma is a military and government machine that was used to transmit coded messages between the Axis powers. (www.computerhope.com)
German army using the Enigma
“The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men, whose techniques he absorbs during the first twenty years of his life. He may then perhaps do a little research of his own and make a very few discoveries which are passed on to other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than by individuals.”
- Alan Turing
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