Enigma Codes is a machine that encrypts and decodes messages. It is called the Enigma Cipher Machine. It was invented by two Dutch naval officers in 1915 and Arthur Scherbius patented the machine in 1918 and began selling it commercially. It was very important to the Germans in WWII because they used the machine to encrypt their messages. They had an adapted military version for communications and were heavily relied on. It showed the importance of cryptography. There were hand ciphers before, but this was the first complex and rotor using cipher machine. Then during WWII when Germany sent secret codes to the Allies, code breakers at Bletchley Park in Britain cracked the messages. In the big picture, after the war, the United States decided to use the Enigma machine. They began to improve them and make them more complicated. Some of the codes and mathematical equations are used in our computers today.
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