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Enigma M3

Bletchley Park és un dels llocs més fascinants de la historia del segle XX. Aquí, durant la II Guerra Mundial i buscant la manera de desxifrar els codis militars alemanys, en sorgí la informatica i els ordinadors.

 

Vista d'una maquina Enigma model M3 de 3 rotors, emprada per l'exèrcit alemany. Posteriorment la Kriegsmarine la complicaria amb un quart rotor (model M4).

 

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%c3%a0quina_Enigma

 

Aqui a sota teniu un video, en anglès sobre el seu funcionament:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJm4-lqRJDc

 

ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park

 

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Bletchley Park is one of the most amazing historical places related to the XX Century in general and to WWII in particular. Here, during the colossal effort to crack the german military codes, computers and computing science were born (or at least had their main intial development).

 

The Enigma M3 is the famous german cypher machine, with 3 rotors (later a 4 rotor, M4 model, was produced for the Kriegsmarine). Although it produced literally millions of millions of possible combinations, the codebreakers cracked it, with their brains, the Bombe machine, and a lof of hard work.

 

Here you have more information about Enigma, and a wonderful emulator program:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJm4-lqRJDc

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

 

The emulator (all the site is wonderful):

users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmasim.htm

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

 

www.jharper.demon.co.uk/bombe1.htm

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park

 

www.bletchleypark.org/

 

www.bletchleypark.org/content/museum.rhtm

 

For an impresive virtual visit, take a look to these videos:

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmMFp2FQPsY

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