About the Enigma As the German military grew in the late 19s, it began looking for a better way to secure its communications It found the answer in a new cryptographic machine called "Enigma" The Germans believed the encryption generated by the machine to be unbreakable With a theoretical number of ciphering possibilities ofThe most sensitive intelligence came from ULTRA—the code name applied to all intel coming from Bletchley Park, including the intercepts of German military messages sent with the ENIGMA machine Because of the volume of the traffic and the overriding need for compartmentalization, the British insisted that the OSS set up a separate, extraEnigma was not a code It was the name of a family of cypher machines;
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