Making the Enigma ciphers for the film "Enigma"
by Tony Sale
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Codes and Ciphers
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The Enigma machine threads in "Enigma".
Tony had to prepare two different sequences using the Enigma cipher
machine. One of these involved a German Army Enigma machine, supposedly
sending messages from the Russian front to headquarters in Germany.
The other sequence was required to simulate
intercept signals from U boats which contacted
a large convoy in mid-Atlantic and sent contact
signals back to Germany using its Enigma
machine.
The contact signals from the U-boats were short
signals sent by radio. They were short to avoid
the radio signals being direction found from the
UK.
The contact signals were composed by the U-boat operator using a Short
Signal code book and then enciphered on his Enigma machine.
The signals were only 22 characters
long.
This page is created by Tony Sale
(tsale@qufaro.demon.co.uk) the
original curator of the Bletchley Park Museum