Enigma Machine The German Light Cruiser “Magdaboard” ran around the Baltic sea, the Russians that were in that area captured the ship and found in it the German Navy Secret code book. The British used it to decode German Navel messages, so that they would know what the German’s were going to do next. When the war was over the British told the world that they had found the Germans code book, which made …showed first 75 words of 844 total…

…showed last 75 words of 844 total…the ENIGMA Machine was that the rotors were fixed and there wern’t very many of them. Once the allies had stolen a couple of ENIGMA machines and had a full set of rotors, cracking the code became a matter of trying different combinations of the available rotors until the correct ones were found. However, the ENIGMA's good, brilliant design was the basis of the strongest encryption available for many years after the war ended.