Modern Uses for the Enigma Machine

Hi

I was just wondering what your thoughts are on the world war two enigma machine. I finished reading a book about it last month and I decided to search for an emulator online. There's quite a few and I downloaded one from the google play store. I tested it out and it has quite a few options for encrypting messages. The obvious difference between this app and the real thing is that there is a space bar included on the app.

What I would like to now is if these messages can be decrypted by real life computers and if the machine has any modern purposes?

FanadMan

easyredrider wrote: »

Hi

I was just wondering what your thoughts are on the world war two enigma machine. I finished reading a book about it last month and I decided to search for an emulator online. There's quite a few and I downloaded one from the google play store. I tested it out and it has quite a few options for encrypting messages. The obvious difference between this app and the real thing is that there is a space bar included on the app.

What I would like to now is if these messages can be decrypted by real life computers and if the machine has any modern purposes?

10 minutes - and it took me about 10 seconds to find that!
https://www.techradar.com/news/we-watched-an-ai-crack-the-enigma-code-in-just-over-ten-minutes#:~:text=We%20watched%20an%20AI%20crack%20the%20Enigma%20code%20in%20just%20over%2010%20minutes,-By%20Andrew%20London&text=Anyone%20who%20paid%20attention%20in,countless%20lives%20on%20both%20sides.