ENGIMA+world war 2

[BIFF56]

The germans had egima in world war 2 can anyone tell me what the allies had for a code and if so was it broken by the germans and whhat was the outcome if so +can anyone point me towards the website  containing the information if possible thank youvery much  biff

[Sequin]

The British had a machine called Type X, which i don't think was broken

http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

[Sequin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/crypto/ro020404.htm

http://www.knobstick.ca/museum/typex.htm

http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Typex.html

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_pr ojects_encyclopedia/Enigma_machine

[Peter Pedant]

Depends which code/cypher

They were able to read some naval codes (convoy codes, I think) which is why so many ships were sunk.

Transatlantic telephony, the Roosevelt-Chiurchill conversations were unscrambled

Good luck in your search - all the info is out there.

For example, the Germans were not even aware there were transmission from the Danish resistance, let alone broke the codes, but there again the fella in charge on site was the prof of electrical engineering in Cpenhagen I think. (He accelerated the pulses so transmissions only took a few seconds)

[marmaduke]

And remember, it was the Poles who cracked the Enigma code.

[issy]

There were many different cipher systems used by the armed forces during WWII and since.
With the advent of world wide digital encoding, these WWII cipher machines now appear to be very low tech'.
It should be remembered that during WWII the methods of communication themselves were subject to easy interception.
The best cipher systems used teleprinters as their transmmitters and receivers and generally employed an output known in the trade as PPL. This stood for Printed Page Layout which had five groups of five letters (each separated by a space) followed by another five groups of five separated from the first group by a triple space all of this per line.
There were then five of these lines, each set of five being separated by a double line shift. It all looked very neat and gobbledegook.
Most of these systems used a single decoding key, or tape, which was never repeated such that each message had was unique and the method for decoding it could not be duplicated for later messages.
This is just an example of the sort of thing that went on.

[charis100]

Our equivalent code was never broken by the Germans. In fact, all German spies on British soil during WWII were successfully turned and became double agents

[nlitnedmoose]

I know for a fact that the Navajo code used by the US marines was never broken, admited by the Japanese themselves. The used the native Navajo native americans here to "code a code" so to speak. These sites might help:

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-2.htm
http://bingaman.senate.gov/code_talkers/code/code.html

this site gives you almost the whole code:
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm

-from one moose to another