Used complicated sets of rotors, to change the letters or combinations of letters in a message or document into what seemed to be randomly selected substitutes The rotors produced billions of possible combinations for the original message A recipient with another Enigma machine used a key to unlock the code Posted on by Administrator Posted in Computer Science, Computing Concepts, Cryptography The enigma machine was used in World War II to encrypt secret messages The Enigma machines are a series of electromechanical rotor cipher machines The first machines were invented at the end of World War I by German engineer Arthur Scherbius andIt therefore has no separate mechanism for decryption, nor does it need one Simply set up the machine identically as at the beginning of encryption, but enter the cyphertext instead of the plaintext
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