Alan Turing cracked Nazi Germany’s Enigma code

on a table in the synagogue’s social hall, the Enigma machine’s keyboard, rotors, lampboard and plugboard seemed to work as smoothly as they did during WW II. The machine was on display for the January Men’s Club program sponsored by Temple Shalom and provided by speaker Dr. Barry Fagin. Featured in the Academy Award nominated film, “The Imitation Game,” the Enigma machine has come to symbolize the capabilities of the military and cryptographers to decipher communications used in military initiatives. The machine also symbolizes the genius and skill of mathematicians such as Alan Turing whose inventions and ideas became the foundation of the modern computer. There are about 350 Enigma machines in the US from the initial thousands created during WW II. The device displayed […]