Originally posted by T.M
i believe it was based on something the germans made up to encode messages in world war 2.not sure bout that though.
i have to go now if u get the answer to my question pm me so then i dont have to search through here to see if u got it right 😛 im quite lazy ✅
Right you are, and understating at it! The Germans used the enigma-device for over 4 years to exchange secret messages, with tremendous success. The messages were literally undecipherable by others.
The trick is a shifting pattern of exchanging letters/numbers/symbols replacing letters in a message at random order. The sequence was altered every few days, and the new code was transmitted in a binary code (relatively new for that time and since it's actually quite simple, it opens up to lots of ways of interpretation, increasing the chance to be mis-interpretend!).
The allies were aware of a communication like this between the enemy troops, but nobody could crack the code, and they did fill buildings with mathematical geniuses to decipher the code 24/7. It took a daring raid on a german U-boat to capture a Enigma-decoder, making them able to understand the ongoing transmissions.
Sadly, the Enigma-device made a large amount of bloody battles turn in the favour of the bad-guys in between that time...