https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q History p.3 en-us 2017-12-14 04:10:26 UTC 2025-10-16 15:38:48 UTC hello@padlet.com miles_seguin https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216037232 The Enigma Machine was a typewriter-like device that could produce codes that were next to impossible to solve. The user first typed a message, then to encrypt it, the user would turn several knobs. Codebooks were distributed to operators so they could easily decose the messages. The Germans eventually got careless, and this led to the downfall of the Enigma. In 1932, Poland intercepted an enigma machine. They shared this with the British and French and this began the cipher school in Bletchley Park in London.]]> 2017-12-14 04:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216037232 miles_seguin https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216037802 The Navajo Code Talkers were imperative in the allied war effort. A Navajo word, depending on how its pronounced, can have 4 different meanings. Foreigners to the language find it incomprehensible, and liken the sounds to train rumbles, gurgling, etc. On top of its crazy sound, Navajo was not a written language. A man named Philip Johnston, who was too old to serve in the military, had an idea: base a secret code in Navajo. Johnston grew up speaking Navajo, and knew that very few people knew the language. Eventually, this idea went through and Navajo Code Talkers were scattered through the pacific. They would be given a message to tell to another Navajo speaker, who would then re-translate it back to English. The language baffled enemy listeners. After the war, one Japanese general gave props to the code, stating, “That is a puzzle I thought would never be solved.”  ]]> 2017-12-14 04:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216037802 miles_seguin https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216038172 Bletchley Park was a secret establishment in England that was one of the most important sites in the war. The main goal of the facility was to decipher enemy codes to help the allies gain an edge in the war. This was where the German enigma machine code was broken, and continued to be broken for the rest of the war. This was also where the world first semi-programmable computer was built. It was called "Collosus" and it was used to decipher the German Lorenz code. ]]> 2017-12-14 04:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216038172 miles_seguin https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216038224 Alan Turing was the man who developed the Bombe, a machine used to break German code. The design was supposed to find out what the daily setting for the Enigma machines were. The rotors were the main part of the machine, and figuring out the rotor setting allowed the allies to find the message key, thus giving the allies a step ahead in the intelligence department. Alan Turing was gay, and was one of the pioneers in gay rights. He was persecuted in 1952 and eventually died from cyanide poisoning. Experts argue that he was poisoned, but a post-mortem examination established that he was not. Many still believe he was murdered...]]> 2017-12-14 04:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/miles_seguin/9i2ugakajp2q/wish/216038224