Cryptanalysis of the Enigma

Turning was born on June 23, 1912 in Maida Vale, London, England and died on June 7, 1954 at age of 41, he was a mathematician, cryptanalysis, logic, computer science, and mathematical and theoretical biology. He went to Sherborne School, Princeton University and gradated. One word to describe this man, he was a “Genius.” He was well known for breaking the German Enigma code during the World War II, and made a machine that can break the code easily. He named this machine after his dear friend Christopher

Jpz777 05/15/2013 Order # A2096310 From the codes messages passed furtively throughout the courts of medieval Europe, to the infamous Enigma cipher machine which protected Nazi secrets in World War II, the concept of cryptography is nearly as old as the written word itself. Today, the field of information technology has developed to the point that even the most sophisticated encryption methods are vulnerable, and for those working as information security officers, shielding a company's invaluable

cryptography, the Enigma was a portable cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. More precisely, Enigma was a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines — comprising a variety of different models. The Enigma was used commercially from the early 1920s on, and was also adopted by the military and governmental services of a number of nations — most famously by Nazi Germany before and during World War II. The German military model, the Wehrmacht Enigma, is the version

Alan Mathison Turing was a gay mathematician during World War II whose work is estimated to have shortened the war by two years and saved an estimated 14 to 21 Million lives. He is considered the father of modern computing due to his contributions to the area of study. There is an award as well as a Law and may buildings and statues in his honor. The man was a genius but was lost too soon due to his suicide whilst doing a procedure known as “Chemical Castration” to eliminate his libido due to homosexuality

one can imagine, such a cipher was easy to break just from analyzing the ciphertext, and thus more complicated ciphers involving mathematical theory were created. However as the advancement of cryptography continued, so did its contrary field of cryptanalysis, the interpretation of protocols. This arrived at the discovery of frequency analysis; the process in which the repetition of certain characters in a language is greater than those of other characters. Thus the frequency of certain meaningless

Data Encryption I. What is Data Encryption? Data encryption describes the transformation of plain text into a different format that is meaningless read by human eye without being decrypted, so called cipher text, in order to prevent any unauthorized party to obtain information from the document. According to the Webster dictionary, “cryptography is the practice and study of data encryption and decryption - encoding

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