Fact 231: What is The Enigma Machine and The Bombe Machine?

Fact 231: What is The Enigma Machine and The Bombe Machine?

The Enigma (machine) was the code encryption device used by the Nazis that looks similar to a typewriter with a letter row behind the the keyboard, the letter row is lights up a letter when you type on the key on the row in front and and it also has dylals on it. it was used to encrypt Nazi messages into encrypted and decrypt messages if you know the right Enigma settings for that day. The Nazi code was broken by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman and other people at Bletchley (Park) by creating a machine that helped decoded the messages.

The Bombe was basically an Enigma decryption or decoding machine that was created to decrypt the Nazi Enigma encrypted messages, the machine was created by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman who were code-breakers working at Bletchley Park during WW2 the machine was named The Turing-Welchman Bombe machine or the Bombe (Machine) for short.