The efforts of British mathematicians to crack the German codes were captured in the 2014 film, The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. "It gives you so many combinations of encrypting a text message that the Germans thought it was safe." The Imitation Game "The machine would dynamically reset its 'logic' and so next time you want to encrypt that letter, it would be mapped onto another letter," said Peter Berg, a University of Alberta professor of mathematics and physics, speaking on CBC's Radio Active on Monday.
The recipient of the message would be given the key to set their machine in the same way. But the technology behind it essentially allowed each letter typed into the machine to be "mapped" onto another letter of the alphabet. The machine looks similar to a typewriter. WWII codebreak to be inducted into regional museum Hall of Fame."Cracking the Enigma machine and other encryption technologies was paramount to Allied victory during the war and remains one of the greatest secrets of World War II," said David O'Keefe, a Montreal-based historian who will be presenting at the lecture, in a news release. The event is currently sold out but the university is hoping to broadcast the talk via its Facebook page on Thursday. The machine exists at the nexus of military history, computing science, and mathematics, which could explain the 500-person crowd that's expected to attend a public lecture on the Enigma at the University of Alberta this week. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first patent for the Enigma machine, a device used to encrypt secret communications for the German military during World War II. It was created to be an unsolvable puzzle and its moniker, the Enigma, indicates as much.
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