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the advent of computers, political and military secrets were passed using
elaborate codes which (if all went as it should) would be unreadable to
anyone outside of a very small group of people who defended a common cause.
Of course, the opposing side of the conflict would go to great lengths
trying to figure out what was in those encrypted messages. Code breaking
goes back to ancient times, but the idea of producing codes on rotary machines
which would enable millions of possibilities of characters to be used was
a pre-cursor to the information age as we know it. The Enigma Machine
was the first prototype to be successfully employed by the Axis Powers
during World War II. The people entrusted by the Allied Powers to
break the code of the Enigma literally changed the course of events.
In this talk, we will take a brief journey through the history of code makers and breakers, and see the physics behind the infamous Enigma Machine. Noon, Strong
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