Arguably, Lorenz was even more significant and far more complex than Enigma.
#THE ENIGMA CODE CODE#
Thus, the Lorenz could send out a code with around 1.6 quadrillion different start positions. Enigma messages often contained fewer than 300. Enciphered messages sent by teleprinter used 5-bit punched paper tape, where a message often contained thousands of ‘places’ (characters, letters or spaces). The Lorenz SZ40/42, however, was much more sophisticated, with twelve wheels and 501 pins. It could send out a code in 150 million, million different start positions. Enigma, with its three wheels, created messages using the twenty-six-letter alphabet. Bill Tutte’s breaking of the Lorenz system without having ever seen the machine was a phenomenal achievement, but many people have never heard of Tutte.Įnigma and Lorenz were two very different cipher systems and had very little in common. Lorenz decrypts made a major contribution to winning the Second World War. Lorenz was used for transmitting the highest grade of intelligence messages at the top levels of German Command. His work on Enigma is widely remembered for its significance in tackling the threat from German U-boats during the Battle of the Atlantic in the middle of 1941.
Alan Turing broke the Enigma code as used by the German Navy.
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