Enigma Machine

Period: 1920–1945

Summary

The Enigma machine, a cipher device used by Nazi Germany during World War II, was designed to encode military communications securely. Its intricate encryption was considered unbreakable until Allied cryptographers at Bletchley Park, led by figures like Alan Turing, developed techniques and machines to crack the code. This achievement not only contributed to the war effort but also advanced the fields of computation and cryptography.