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The Enigma Machine Explained

Simon Singh explores one of the most advanced coding machines of the 20th century, the Nazis’ Enigma Machine. It was a typewriter-ish machine used to code communications, and was pretty revolutionary in its methods.

But it also had some fatal flaws.

(via World Science Festival)

Source: worldsciencefestival.com

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