How did the Enigma Machine work? | Jared Owen Animations

"To break the code, you could try each different setting of the Enigma machine one after the other, but it would take you around five trillion years..." Find out how the German Enigma machine really worked. And how British codebreakers at Bletchley Park were able to finally crack it during the Second World War. Watch Uncovering the Enigma: Bletchley Park on History Hit TV: https://access.historyhit.com/videos/uncovering-the-enigma-bletchley-park | History Hit

32K views · 1.2K reactions | The world's only working replica of a 'bombe'. Designed by Turing and Welchman it helped to discover the daily settings of Enigma. It was able to calculate the rotor settings and plug board settings of the Enigma machine when the German operators started broadcasting a message. No British bombes survive from the war. This one was painstakingly reconstructed and works exactly as the wartime machine would have worked. | History Hit | Facebook