Encryption In World War Two

In World War Two, one of the most significant determining factors in the outcome of the conflict was the battle fought without conventional weaponry. Although the Second World War was fought between the Allies and the Axis Powers with weapons like tanks, aircrafts, U-Boats, machine guns there was another war that was being fought underneath the surface of what was happening on land, in the air, or underwater. That was the war of encryption. With encryption being used as a major weapon for the Germans after the First World War, it became a major priority for the Allies to decrypt the messages that were being communicated by the Germans with their encryption machine called the Enigma. Alan Turing was a mathematician who contributed greatly in
developing a method and a machine to decrypt messages from the Enigma machine at a fast rate. With the information obtained from the decrypted messages, Alan Turing and his contributions at Bletchley Park were imperative in winning the Second World War, as the Allies were able to crack the secrets of German wartime communication.