Alan Turing's Accomplishments

The Enigma was created at the end of World War I and patented in 1919 by Arthur Scherbius, a German engineer. The Enigma was a electro-magnetic ciphering machine and it was used by the German military as a way of communicating securely. As time went on, the Enigma was updated, and made more secure. It was used throughout World War II until the end of the war, though the Germans didn’t realize that the Enigma had been cracked by the British.

Code breaking was a crucial part of the secret efforts of the allied forces during World War II. Though modern day code breaking is a feat which can be achieved by means of using advanced technology, during World War II, code breaking was a vital and dangerous endeavour. The Nazi’s Enigma code was one of the most difficult and essential ciphers to unscramble. The Bletchley Park code breakers actually created what was considered the first prototype of a computer for the purpose cracking the Enigma code. In deciphering the Enigma code many lives were lost, however, a larger number of lives were saved. The Coventry Blitz was a prime example of how lives were lost in order to preserve the secrecy of the Enigma code. Cracking

During World War 2 was a time of devastation. It was also a great time of innovation. One of the greatest innovations was the beginning of modern computing. During World War 2 encryption was each army’s main way of keeping war plans secure. One of the most famous encrypting machines was named the Enigma. The Enigma was a machine that took input from one side; encrypts it and sends the message to another operator who then translates it using a code book (Gladwin). Using this machine, the German’s kept nearly all the information secure from other countries. To break these encryptions, the British secret service along with many other countries started to build machines that could defeat the Enigmas encryption (Gladwin). Soon after the Germans

The Enigma machine was the primary cryptosystem used by German armed forces units (such as regiments or divisions). About the size of a portable typewriter, Enigma

World War II was arguably the most famous war of the 20th century. Spanning from 1939 to 1945, it was the bloodiest war in modern history involving more than 30 countries. The infamous “Fuhrer of the Third Reich”, Adolf Hitler was the lead antagonist of the axis power throughout the duration of WWII. World renowned for his aggressive political and military decisions, Hitler’s campaign was not only known as reckless but impeccable all at once. Hitler would go on a brilliant campaign conquering the majority of Eastern Europe, which then lead to “Operation Blau,” the Siege of Stalingrad.

The discoveries made at Bletchley Park could be used as an advantage due to the intelligence both coming in the door and that of those who worked there resulted in a slow progression towards the pattern of Enigma becoming understood. The understanding and knowledge of Enigma and major German military tactics allowed for the Allies to have control, yet they knew the push to take the advantage of Germany meant understanding the Enigma Code. Even when the British had cracked the code, they deliberately always gave credit to their reconnaissance scouts, agents, and spies to keep the Germans unaware that Enigma had been

This memorial commemorates Alan Turing and the other contributors of Bletchley Park. Turing was a British mathematician and cryptologist. It honors their creation of the computer that cracked the German coded messages. His deciphering of the messages saved approximately 14 million lives and shaved 2-4 years off of the war. After the war was over, his service was classified for many years and he never received the recognition he should have. In 1952 Turing was arrested for homosexuality and sentened to medications to reverse his homosexulaity, he commited suicide due to the medications. The memorial will honor Turing and the other Bletchley Park worker’s achievements.

Alan Turing was a renowned modern mathematician and cryptologist who became known as the father of computer science and eventually became a gay rights icon for his persecution due to his homosexuality. He was also extremely important in winning the second world war, developing the world’s first computer to combat and break the German message encrypting Enigma machine. In fact, Winston Churchill, one of the most prominent figures of World War II, let alone the 20th century, said that Turing made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany and its Axis partners. Without Alan Turing, the Allies wouldn’t be able to know the Nazi plans and could very likely have lost the war. Turing, too, developed the idea of

To crack the highly sophisticated German codes, Max Newman, a Princeton graduate who majored in mathematics, spent over eleven months designing and building the Colossus. A monolithic, humming machine, covered with an array of switches, the Colossus was the world’s first electronic digital programable computer. With over fifteen-hundred thermionic tubes, the Colossus ciphered German codes and neatly printed the top-secret codes on a long receipt. Then, with knowledge of the enemy, the coders would share the news to army officials. Even these coders were participating in the cause against Nazism.

Cracking the Enigma was a huge accomplishment for the allies in WWII. A huge part of winning the war, laid in cracking the code. This meant that the allies could understand the secret messages the axis were sending, which again helped them tremendously.

World War II was an armed conflict that swept the globe from 1939 to 1945, being considered the greatest and murderous ceaseless war in history. For the first time in history a series of new innovations such as the atomic bomb by the US were used widely against militaries and civilians alike. Underlying the stated above it is estimated that not only did this war cost significant amounts of money and resources, as it also caused the deaths of approximately 69 million people.

The Imitation Game The film, “The Imitation Game”, follows the life of Alan Turing, a homosexual mathematician, who became a war hero after breaking Enigma, an encryption device that the Germans used for communication purposes during World War II. Decoding Enigma had a major effect on World War II. In 1939, Alan Turing, and four other code breakers, Joan Clarke, Hugh Alexander, John Cairncross, and Peter Hilton were employed by the British military as cryptographers to decipher the secret messages that the Germans were sending. Decoding it was an impossible task – there was 150,000,000,000,000 possible codes, which would be switched everyday by the Germans, forcing the five codebreakers to start over. Throughout the film, Turing works to design a machine that would be smarter than any human brain to decode Enigma instantly.

In the movie The Imitation Game there were many factors of the movie that were true and false in Alan Turing’s life. Although, most of his work is shrouded in mystery, we still have quite a bit of history on the man. Firstly, in the movie, we are showed that Alan has feelings for his dear friend Christopher and that Turing attends an all-boys-academy. This, in fact, is true. Christopher did genuinely exist and the school at which they attended was called Sherborne School in Dorset. In the film we learned that Alan Turing was a homosexual, scared and closeted about his true identity. Once more, this is another true fact. Unfortunately, Turing was in a time period where being gay was a disgrace and outlawed in England. He was convicted in 1952

The Holocaust affected people mentally and emotionally, but some success in advanced technology came out of their retainment. In particular, Curta Herzstark and his talents in designing a mechanical calculator that would help him survive one of the darkest moments in world history is just one of many.

In the history of 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.