Us Navy Bombe Decryption Machine is a photograph by National Security Agency/science Photo Library which was uploaded on October 4th, 2018.
Us Navy Bombe Decryption Machine
US Navy Bombe decryption machine. Based on the design by mathematician Alan Turing, this device was used during World War 2 to decrypt German... more
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Us Navy Bombe Decryption Machine
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National Security Agency/science Photo Library
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US Navy Bombe decryption machine. Based on the design by mathematician Alan Turing, this device was used during World War 2 to decrypt German communications enciphered with the Enigma machine. The bombe was used to work out the Enigma settings in use each day, allowing messages to be deciphered. It required a short stretch of encrypted message with a known meaning (a crib). It was named after the Bomba, a machine used by Polish cryptographers to break simple variants of Enigma before the war. Photographed at the National Cryptologic Museum, Maryland, USA.
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