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More than 70 years after the Enigma was cracked by Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park, innovative technology housed at The University of Manchester has provided a detailed peek beneath the bonnet of the German wartime cipher machine.<\/p>\n

A deadly weapon<\/h2>\n

\"Enigma<\/p>\n

The German Enigma machine was integral in providing the Axis powers with the upper hand during World War II \u2013 particularly during the Battle of the Atlantic. At this time, the UK was extremely reliant on imports from the US and Canada to keep the population going and fighting. However, German submarines were used to form a blockade and stop these supplies getting through. Crucial to the Axis efforts at this time were the Enigma machines that allowed them to share classified information secretly by encrypting it.<\/p>\n

While it might look like a clunky typewriter, the Enigma machine was very good at its job. The machines had a typewriter keyboard to input the messages and a light board that would spell out the encrypted version. Each Enigma operator had a book of codes \u2013 a different one for each day \u2013 which instructed them on how to set up the machine for that day.<\/p>\n

Once a coded message was produced by one machine, it was sent via Morse code to an Enigma operator based elsewhere. That operator would use the same daily key code to set up their own machine in the same way, and they could then simply input the cyphered text on the keyboard. The light board would display the actual message, which would be copied down by the operator.<\/p>\n

Indecipherable<\/h2>\n
\"Enigma
The Enigma’s rotors and plug board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Inside the machine was a minimum of three rotors that would rotate every time a key was pressed to ensure that a different result was generated each time \u2013 even if the same key was pressed twice. There was also a plug board, which allowed the operator to add an extra layer of encryption.<\/p>\n

In fact, between the rotors and the plug board, there were over 150 million million million (no, that\u2019s not a mistake) possible combinations for each message intercepted by the Allies. Cracking it was a near impossible task, and for every day those messages weren\u2019t deciphered, valuable supplies could be prevented from reaching Britain, and lives put at risk.<\/p>\n

To provide an idea of exactly what the codebreakers were up against, we were recently lucky enough to get a peek inside an Enigma machine. Aptly, the machine was sent to the Alan Turing Building, where a series of X-ray radiographs were taken using X-ray Computed Tomography. These X-rays were then used to build a virtual 3D replica of the internal workings of the machine \u2013 providing a unique glimpse at the layers of mechanics that allowed messages to be so thoroughly encoded. You can watch a video of the 3D images here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The machine\u2019s owner David Cripps said: \u201cOne thing we\u2019ve been able to do is actually look inside the rotors and see the individual wires and pins which connect the 26 letters on each of the three rotors, enabling a message to be encrypted. This is the first time anyone has been able to look inside the Enigma with this level of detail, using a technique that does not damage the machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cracking the code<\/h2>\n
\"Enigma
Enigma’s instructions and number codes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cracking the Enigma seemed an impossible task \u2013 and yet it was no match for some of the brightest minds of the time \u2013 and one Manchester hero<\/a> in particular. Just one day after the UK declared war on Germany, mathematician Alan Turing reported for duty at Bletchley Park \u2013 the top-secret nerve centre for codebreaking during the war.<\/p>\n

While there, Turing built a device known as the Bombe. This machine was able to use logic to decipher the encrypted messages produced by the Enigma. However, it was human understanding that enabled the real breakthroughs.<\/p>\n

The Bletchley Park team made educated guesses at certain words the message would contain. For example, they knew that every day the German forces sent out a \u2018weather report\u2019, so an intercepted coded message would almost certainly contain the German word for \u2018weather\u2019. They also knew that most messages would contain the phrase \u2018heil Hitler\u2019. Looking for these patterns in the coded messages helped the team to calculate the daily settings on the Enigma machines.<\/p>\n

Another breakthrough came with the discovery that numbers were spelt out as words rather than using the single letters on the machines meant to represent them (see image above)<\/em>. Learning this prompted Turing to go back and review any messages that had been decrypted, where he learnt the German word for one \u2013 \u2018eins\u2019 \u2013 appeared in almost every message. From this, he created the Eins Catalogue, which helped him to automate the crib process.<\/p>\n

Weaknesses within the Enigma also helped the team to crack it. For example, a letter was never encoded as itself, which helped reduce some of the possibilities.<\/p>\n

Not all the code-cracking efforts took place in Bletchley Park. When there was an urgent need to uncover certain codes, the RAF would assist the codebreakers by planting mines in areas the German forces had previously swept. This would prompt the German officers to send messages that contained words or phrases the codebreakers could recognise \u2013 known plaintext \u2013 which helped them to work out the machine codes.<\/p>\n

Turing\u2019s legacy<\/h2>\n
\"\"
The Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to the Bletchley Park team and the Bombe, the Enigma was cracked. And yet, such was the secrecy of the project, hardly anyone knew about this huge effort until three decades later \u2013 some 20 years after Alan Turing had died.<\/p>\n

It is thought that the work of Turing and his team helped to end the war two years earlier than would otherwise have been the case \u2013 saving millions of lives in the process. Turing \u2013 who went on to take up the position of Reader at Manchester\u2019s Mathematics Department<\/a> \u2013 would not see this achievement recognised during his lifetime.<\/p>\n

Gavin Brown, Professor of Machine Learning at The University of Manchester, said: \u201cIt is fantastic to unveil this new perspective on the Enigma in the Alan Turing Building, named after the man who played such a large role in cracking its code in World War II. Manchester was an environment where Turing flourished. His legacy can be seen right across the University, with researchers developing super computers that can model the human brain<\/a>, exploring number theory and cryptography, as well as training robots to understand language. Right here, people are working on the principles that he laid down and the dreams that he had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helping end World War II and saving millions of lives is quite a legacy \u2013 but why stop there? Alan Turing is, of course, also recognised as the father of modern computing thanks to his pioneering work in this area. He produced the first detailed design of a stored-program computer, and became the foremost expert in artificial intelligence during his lifetime. As if all that wasn\u2019t enough, he was also an exceptional runner, and was occasionally known to run the 40 miles from Bletchley Park to London to attend meetings.<\/p>\n

You may have heard that the Bank of England is calling upon the public to suggest scientists to appear on its new \u00a350 note. There can be few people more worthy than Turing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can vote for who you think should appear on the new banknote here<\/a>. Voting is open until December 14th<\/sup>, and your nomination must be a scientist who is now deceased.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Words \u2013 Hayley Cox<\/em><\/p>\n

Images \u2013 School of Mathematics,\u00a0Shaw June<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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