Thread: ENIGMA Machines
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Old 20-06-11, 01:45
Bruce MacMillan Bruce MacMillan is offline
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They didn't use the Enigmas for decoding. That machine was called the Bombe. They built over 200 of them. The captured Enigmas enabled them to find out how the rotors were wired.

Much of the work of Alan Turing went into the Bombe
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