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Bletchley Park code-breaking facility
The Enigma Machine: How Nazi Germany’s “Unbreakable” Code Got Absolutely Demolished
Nazi Germany built a cipher machine with 158 quintillion possible settings and called it unbreakable. They were wrong. Here’s the full story of the Enigma machine, the brilliant misfits at Bletchley Park who cracked it, and why the whole thing matters for every padlock icon in your browser today.