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The History of Hut Eight From alanturing.net. The History of Hut Eight, 1939 - 1945, by A. P. Mahon ( 117 pp. ) 1945. Hut 6 was a wartime section of Bletchley Park, the British codebreaking centre during World War II, tasked with the solution of German Army and Air Force Enigma machine ciphers, while Hut 8, by contrast, attacked Naval Enigma. If the history of Hut 8 is to be understood, it is essential to understand roughly how the machine works and thus obtain some idea of the problem which had to be tackled. Developments which have taken place during the war have complicated the problem but have left the machine fundamentally the same. The process of cyphering ( the modern cryptography ) is simple and quick. The message is typed on a normal keyboard and as each letter is pressed, another letter is illuminated on a lampboard containing the 26 letters of the alphabet. The series of letters illuminated on the lampboard form the cypher text and the recipient of the cypher message, in possession of an identical machine, types out the cypher text and the decoded message appears on the lamp board. This is a digital facsimile of the original document. The original of this document is held in the United Kingdom at the National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU. Reference HW 25/2. Enigma was a machine used by the German military between the late 1920s and the end of World War II, that implemented a complex electro-mechanical polyalphabetic cipher to protect sensitive communications.
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