Enigma Device used by the German military to encode strategic messages before and during World War II. The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles in the early 1930s, so that German messages were eventually intercepted and deciphered by Allied code-breakers d... more
Enigma Machine The Enigma was a machine used by the German military before and during World War II to encrypt messages. To encrypt (or encipher) a message means to change its form in such a way that it (ideally) becomes unintelligible to anyone besides the sender and t... more
