Cryptography / Classic ciphers
Lesson 5 of 25
Vigenère and Enigma
Vigenère uses a keyword to change the shift for each letter. Enigma was a WW2 machine whose rotors changed the substitution with every key press. Both were eventually broken.
Key points
- Vigenère: repeating keyword shifts
- Enigma was broken at Bletchley Park
- Alan Turing helped build the machines that cracked it
Quiz · +10 XP
Who helped break Enigma at Bletchley Park?
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