Alan Turing by Abimael Barrera https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb Made with a warm hug en-us 2017-10-30 17:18:03 UTC 2017-10-30 17:39:28 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png What is the Enigma encryption machine? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201838572 The Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two.]]> 2017-10-30 17:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201838572 Who developed it? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201838928 Arthur Scherbius, a German engineer, developed his 'Enigma' machine, capable of transcribing coded information, in the hope of interesting commercial companies in secure communications. In 1923 he set up his Chiffriermaschinen Aktiengesellschaft (Cipher Machines Corporation) in Berlin to manufacture his product.]]> 2017-10-30 17:20:42 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201838928 Why did they develop it? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201839542 The idea of the machine was hatched by a German engineer. German engineer Arthur Scherbius starts todevelop a patented cypher machine employing codewheels first invented by Dutchman Hugh Koch. The developed “Enigma machine” is put on the market. ... The Enigma is adopted and adapted by the German army.Oct 21, 2014]]> 2017-10-30 17:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201839542 How did it work? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201841019 Enter the first letter of your message on the keyboard and a letter lights up showing what it has replaced within the encrypted message. At the other end, the process is the same: type in the “ciphertext” and the letters which light are the decoded missive.

Inside the box, the system is built around three physical rotors. Each takes in a letter and outputs it as a different one. That letter passes through all three rotors, bounces off a “reflector” at the end, and passes back through all three rotors in the other direction.

]]> 2017-10-30 17:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201841019 Was it leak-proof? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201841923 The encryption machine wasn't leak proof because just how it could code a message, you could decode it.]]> 2017-10-30 17:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201841923 How was it used in WWII? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201843006  used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two year]]> 2017-10-30 17:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201843006 Who is Alan Turing? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201846082 Alan Turing was a British scientist and a pioneer in computer science. During World War II, he developed a machine that helped break the German Enigma code. He also laid the groundwork for modern computing and theorized about artificial intelligence.]]> 2017-10-30 17:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201846082 What was the Hut 8 team? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201846668 Hut 8. Hut 8 was a section in the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) atBletchley Park (the British World War II codebreaking station) tasked with solving German naval (Kriegsmarine) Enigma messages. The section was led initially byAlan Turing.]]> 2017-10-30 17:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201846668 What was Turing and the Hut 8 team’s role in relation to the Enigma machine? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201846901 Lorenz enciphered German strategic messages of high importance: the ability of Bletchley to read these contributed greatly to the Allied war effort. Turing travelled to the United States in December 1942, to advise US military intelligence in the use of Bombe machines and to share his knowledge of Enigma.]]> 2017-10-30 17:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201846901 Do you think the outcome of WWII could have been different had Turing and this team not been involved? superviolin187 https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201847622 History records that the allied armies took roughly a year to fight their way from the beaches to Berlin. In a counterfactual scenario, in which Hitler had had more time to consolidate his preparations, this struggle might have taken much longer—twice as long maybe. That translates into a very large number of lives. At a conservative estimate, each year of fighting in Europe brought on average about seven million deaths. Returning to the atom bomb example, and to the difficulties of counterfactual history, the killing might still have ended in May 1945, even in a scenario that saw Tunny and U-boat Enigma remaining unbroken throughout the war. Nevertheless, these colossal numbers of lives—7 million had the war had continued for another year, 21 million if, owing to the Atlantic U-boats and a strengthened Fortress Europe, the war had toiled on for as long as another three years—do most certainly convey a sense of the magnitude of Turing’s contribution.]]> 2017-10-30 17:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/superviolin187/88h0lxd6isxb/wish/201847622