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Breaking a Simplified Enigma Machine

The real wartime Enigma resisted brute force because of two unknowns stacked on top of its rotor positions: which three rotors were chosen and in what order, and how the plugboard was wired. Together these push the key space past 10^20. Strip those two unknowns away and only 17,576 rotor positions are left, small enough for a modern computer to brute-force outright.

The Enigma Machine

Learn how the Enigma machine worked: the WWII German cipher machine that produced a different substitution alphabet for every single keystroke. Its defeat by Alan Turing and Bletchley Park changed the course of the war.