Is an Enigma Code?

Enigma, device used by the German military command to encode strategic messages before and during World War II. ... The Enigma code was first broken by the Poles, under the leadership of mathematician Marian Rejewski, in the early 1930s.

Who really broke the Enigma code?

Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician. Born in London in 1912, he studied at both Cambridge and Princeton universities. He was already working part-time for the British Government's Code and Cypher School before the Second World War broke out.

How did Enigma code work?

Enigma has an electromechanical rotor mechanism that scrambles the 26 letters of the alphabet. In typical use, one person enters text on the Enigma's keyboard and another person writes down which of 26 lights above the keyboard lights up at each key press.