Anoraks Corner by Tony Sale
Can you break Enigma?

Welcome to Anoraks Corner

You can now, if your feeling realy brave try breaking Lorenz!!

Here you will find a description of Enigma and its vulnerabilities, how these were exploited, first by the Polish mathematicians, later by the Allies. You will also find a series of intercept scenarios against which you can try your codebreaking skills, and simulations of nearly all the tools developed to break Enigma. You can download and use these to try to break Enigma yourself.

You can also save all these pages to a folder \anoraks on your disk. Unzip anoracks.zip (200Kb) direct to your hard disc. This should create a folder \anoraks. Then unzip tools.zip (800Kb) into \anoraks. You should end up with the folder \tools within folder \anoraks. You can then run everything off line from disc.

The Enigma machine Follow a a page revising how the Enigma worked.	Keyboard of an Enigma
Its vulnerabilities a page describing the the vulnerabilities of Enigma and how they were exploited	The Code Breakers
The Intercept Scenarios Are you up to Breaking Enigma?
The tools used to break Enigma Click here for the tools

This page was originally created by the late Tony Sale, the original curator of the Bletchley Park Museum, Currently work on this section of the site is being sponsored by Abbey Driveways Surfacing who specialise in Resin Driveway Resurfacing.