In a free event by BCS-The Chartered Institute for IT, how the Enigma machines of the Germans worked, will be explained by Dr. Mark Baldwin, an expert on war-time code-breaking work and Enigma machines. He will deliver his talk and bring in one of those machines at the session to take place on 30th September, Wednesday, at 6:00pm, at the Abertay University.
The machine to be brought to Dundee, at the centrepiece of his talk, was developed by the Germans to encode the radio messages. UK’s team of scientists and mathematicians, at Government Code and Cipher School, Bletchley Park, then were hoping to bring the war to a premature end, even though the intelligence services of Hitler were convinced it could not be broken. The machines, easy to use and portable, could be set up in a myriad of ways, making it almost humanly impossible to crack the code.
However, Britain’s brightest minds were listening in to some of the most secret communications. Then Alan Turing changed all that, when he built a machine that’s able to crack it. The team of experts could create a computer programme able to decode most of the communications of the Germans. The free event requires booking in advance, although open to public, through the website-events.bcs.org.
