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    A Closer Look At Cryptography Essay

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    A Closer Look At Cryptography Ever since the earliest days of writing, people have had reasons to limit their information to a restricted group of people. Because of this, these people have had to develop ideas of making their information unable to be read by unwanted people. The general techniques used to hide the meaning of messages constitute the study known as cryptography. "Ciphers, in general fall into three major classifications: 1. Concealment Cipher, 2. Transposition Cipher, and 3.

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    “Alan Turing: The Enigma” written by Andrew Hodges. Alan Turing was a mathematician, cryptanalysis, and a well known war hero. In 1952, he worked at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code breaking center, during the Second World War. Subsequently, he cracked the Enigma, which is an electro-mechanical rotor cipher machine that generates a new code every 24 hours, used by Nazi Germany. A year later, he also cracked Germany’s Naval Enigma, which was an even more complicated design than the Enigma. This shortened

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    cracked the un-breakable German Enigma code during World War II. Through the film, Tyldum magnifies Turing and the complexity of his brain, illuminates the intensity Turing and fellow researchers underwent through the music playing in the background, and expands the story to different time frames to unfold a lifetime of misjudgment and misunderstanding Alan Turing endured.

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    Though the Germans did utilize the enigma coding machine, which was an amazing feat of engineering, they didn’t, however, use intelligence operations with the same intensity that the Allies did. On the contrary, the British contributed a substantial amount of their time conducting intelligence operations. They focused mainly on the cracking of the German enigma codes, hoping that they would be able to predict the nearly unpredictable nature of the

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    World War II (2) Later on, Gordon was invited to Bletchley Park by a man named Alastair Denniston, who was working on a machine called the Enigma Machine. The Enigma Machine looks like a typewriter, and was used for communication between the military. It was used during World War II by the British to decode the German signals (5). Denniston was having trouble with the Enigma Machine since the German had made it more complicated, so Denniston put together some people to form the Government Code and Cypher

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    device. In 1932, Marian Rejewski hacked the German Enigma Machine. The Enigma machine was an electromechanical device, equipped with a 26-letter keyboard and 26 lamps, relating to the letters of the alphabet. Inside was a set of wired drums (rotors and a reflector) that jumbled the input. The Enigma used a plug-board to swap pairs of letters, and the encryption varied from one key press to the next. For two operators to communicate, both Enigma machines had to be set up in the same way. The large number

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    The Enigma Code

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    illustrate the period of time during WWII where the German use of the Enigma code, which is an encrypted form of communication, had not yet been solved. This mystery allowed Germans to communicate freely, without having to worry about other countries interfering.. The British force attempted to crack the code, but there were several obstacles that stood in their way that earned the enigma code, impossible to crack. The decryption of the Enigma code was such a daunting task primarily because there were millions

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    The Imitation Game is a movie based on a real story, taking place in the isolated Bletchley Park in Sherborne, during WWII. Here, six chosen men, including Alan Turing, live and breathe the Enigma machine with hopes of breaking the code. Breaking it will enable them to listen to the messaged plans of the opposing Germans. Every night at midnight, the Germans alter the code settings to then be able to send a new message every morning at six am. Therefore, the code breakers only have eighteen hours

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    Morality, morals, standards, are they compatible in all times and societies. Will morality be similar in twenty years’ time or a hundred years? Interchangeable words or distinct words? Does Morality evolve over time or our perspectives of morality are modified over time. Societies establish are moral standard and corrupted by time, or have people infused morals into society? What is morality, is morality, what is normal or what we are taught? Humans are unstable and durable creatures, we are molded

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    War Two and it was most obvious throughout Joan Clarke's life. While analysing different critics opinions and views on Joan Clarke's role in the film, I found many supporting ideas and discovered that there was a lot of sexism during the time of the Enigma code. Through broad analysis I found that the chosen critic's opinions were supportive of each other. The two main critics I studied were Barnaby Walter and Joe Miller, both wrote in 2014. These two critics showed similar views and coincidently posted

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