UK code breakers drop Bombe, Enigma and Typex simulators onto the web for all to try

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/18/gchq_enigma_emulator/

By Thomas Claburn in San Francisco
The Register
18 Mar 2019

UK signals intelligence agency GCHQ, celebrating its centenary, has released 
emulators for famed World War II-era cipher machines that can be run within its 
web-based educational encryption app CyberChef.

"We've brought technology from our past into the present by creating emulators 
for Enigma, Typex and the Bombe in #CyberChef," GCHQ said Thursday via Twitter. 
"We even tested them against the real thing! Try them out for yourself!"

Enigma machines turn text into ciphertext and back again; they were used by the 
German military, among others, to encrypt and decrypt messages during the 
Second World War.

The machines were produced shortly after the end of World War I and initially 
sold as tools for keeping commercial secrets. There were later adopted by the 
German military, and in 1932 sale of the devices required military approval.

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