The Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware ... the Poles opted to share their secrets with the British, and Britain's Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park ...

Bernard: The cipher vehicle was like a mobile ... as both B and C at the same time. Knowing this, British code breakers designed a machine that could eliminate the vast majority of possible ...

Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine ... British efforts at the Bletchley Park research station during the War. Decryption of the Enigma ...

made it an immediate success as a field cipher, used by the British in the Boer War and the First World War, and by several armed forces as an emergency back-up cipher in the Second World War.