Read through the following article: The Enigma Machine, from http://cromwell-int
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Read through the following article:
The Enigma Machine, from http://cromwell-intl.com/.
In your post, discuss the weaknesses in the German code, operational errors, and any other factors that enabled the Allied Forces to crack the German code during World War II.
Answer the following question: How did the compromise of the German code affect the outcome of World War II if at all?
Find at least one credible reference to support your opinion and paste the hyperlink in your response as well.
Include the following if your information came from a book: Title, Author, ISBN and the page number of your supporting material.
Explanation / Answer
Compromise of german code helped save millions of people from german attacks in ww2. It helped reduce the war by a period of 4 years.
One of the funniest weaknesses according to the post is a guy usign his girlfriends name as a message setting CIL, using such non random and predictable settings such as ABC, HIT, LER, as humans are so bad at random they often rely on stuff off previous memories to make their lives easier. This is an operational error
Their **no rotor should repeat within one month** rule reduced number of possible combinations as we move towards the end of month. If one can work on it from the start of the month then number of combination needed to be searched will be reduced.
Germans used predictable plain text sequences which helped the opposite forces when they started running known plain text attacks, looking for common repeated words in the language. Well no matter how much you shift, a shift cipher is a shift cipher.
Identical messages encrypted with multiple keys also led to an operational error. As submarines surfaced, they generally requested all messages the station has sent while they have been submerged. Thus the same messages were sent in but with different keys, again leading to know-plaintext attack vulnerability.
Sometimes the british forces would do some damage to the german or their allies, that were'nt very serious, but were serious enough for the german allied forces to report through their machine and the british would look for that message, that's a known plain text attack.
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