Breaking the Enigma cipher
Polish cryptologists break the Enigma cipher.
- Year
- 1932
- Place
- Warsaw, Cipher Bureau
- Domain
- Odkrycie
Polish mathematicians of the Cipher Bureau, led by Marian Rejewski, were the first to break the cipher of the German Enigma machine. The work was carried out in Warsaw.
Why it matters
A foundation for Allied intelligence during the Second World War.