The Enigma code, once a formidable cipher that required significant efforts from Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers to crack, would be easily broken by today's computing power. Despite Polish efforts in the 1930s, Turing had to create advanced Bombes to decode messages. These machines were capable of deciphering two messages per minute by navigating an astronomically large number of potential encryptions. Experts today argue that the combination of modern computational capabilities and mathematical statistics renders the challenges presented by the Enigma trivial by comparison.
The Enigma device used by the Axis powers was an electro-mechanical machine that resembled a typewriter, with three rotors that each had 26 possible positions, a reflector that sent the signal back through the rotors and a plugboard that swapped pairs of letters.
While the race to break the Enigma code has become famous, experts say cracking it would be a trivial matter today. Enigma wouldn't stand up to modern computing and statistics.
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