Ross writes in:
This is a tattoo I designed based on the wiring diagram from the Enigma Machine that was supposedly uncrackable, and used to encode messages during the second world war. The British mathematician, Alan Turing, cracked the code.
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Actually it was first cracked by Polish Cypher bureau in 1932, not by Turing.
Yup, the Polish did the first decryption, which was absolutely critical to the war effort, but the complexity of the machine was increased just as war started so they handed over what they learned to Bletchley Park who have a pretty awesome page on what was done:
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/hist/hist…
Turing helped re-crack it but more importantly came up with the bombe, a machine for decoding it much faster based on a polish idea.
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/hist/wart…