Enigma and the German Army

A remarkable breach of command sort of hierarchical protocol when we are some of your underlings just right to church I mean it's quite astonishing that they didn't get fired actually. The British had concluded that it could be easily decrypted and almost dismissed the Enigma machine as being not very secure. A plug board was the thing that nearly defeated the code breakers so the version that the German armed forces were using from sort of the mid 1930s onwards was much more sophisticated and secure than the Walmart version. That didn't stop some people using the Walmart version of course everybody then could break those messages and prove prove the point that actually it wasn't particularly secure, he says.