I felt the amount of
good and
accurate information about World War II era cryptography on everything was rather lacking, so I decided to copy the descriptions I wrote for my
thinkquest site into
everything. If you like what you read you really might want to check out my
site at http://dev.thinkquest.org/C004911/ where you can use java emulators of just about all of the machines I describe.
The
articles themselves are written from the point of view of either the US, UK, USSR, Japan or Germany at about 1942.
United States:
SIGABA
The
Purple break.
USSR:
One Time Pad
Soviet Espionage Cipher
United Kingdom
Typex
The
Enigma break.
Japan
JN-25
Purple
Germany
Enigma