The Enigma key breaking scene in The Imitation Game

[BobRoss]

Later, the daily settings calculation became much easier, thanks to a german radio operator in the Sahara, who messaged "Nothing to report" every single day. The exact same message

[JackT-iy]

A man of such absolute genius. The father of modern computing, even still has a computing test named for him, and it shames us all the way he was treated, for just being who he was.

[paulrandig]

This hand-over-mouth gesture by Keira Knightley/Joan Clarke covers the impact of the moment perfectly. Everyone thinks that this bunch of adrenalin-soaked people in this dark room may just have been witness to THE most important event to win and end this war. But noone dares to say it.

[Taylexwow]

So basically they broke Enigma because someone wasn't following protocol on the German IS WHY YOU FOLLOW PROTOCOL lol.

[Purdue_Pharma]

1:41 “Alan! Alan! Alan!” Can anyone else hear the prairie dog yelling it?

[Maccaxxx]

I think around 10, 000 people worked at Bletchley Park during the war, and it was kept a secret what they did for 30 years, just so typically British.

[mzahra]

The next generation, Colossus, took it to the next level. Was an electronic (tube) computer that was designed and built by British engineer Tommy Flowers, working at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill, London and was even faster and better.

[underwaterbubbles]

Great movie but an even greater real life achievement.

[alexbowman]

It’s possible some high ranking Germans suspected the Allies were deciphering their code but realised it would shorten a war they were inevitably going to lose and so kept quiet.

[williamthethespian]

Fantastic, tragic, human. Great movie.

[fishyc]

Thats a 3 dial. 3 dials started with 6 letter "code" not 5.
The first 3 were in plain and the initial setting on the wheel. The second 3 were encoded through the first to produce the message key setting.
What screwed the germans up was they used 6 letter words rather than 6 random or code letters.
So an intercept would read HIT (clear) ZGN. However by guessing HIT was HITLER they could work out ZGN was in fact the result of running LER through the HIT dials.
So the dials were set accordingly and the message decoded.

[davidcrisell]

Those people shortened the war by two years.

[nicholasgloc]

Imagine if they had acquired an enigma machine with a squeaky wheel.

[robertxx]

Helen, her real name is Tuppence was lovely. Pity she only got a few minutes screen time, but Helens input was hugely pivotal.

[pavloscharalampous]

Rest in peace ingenious Alan Turing. 😢😮😮😮😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤.May God rest you with his angels. Thank you Alan Turing.😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤❤

[spinofonia]

Polish mathematicians Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki broke the cipher of the German cipher machine enigma and then developed methods allowing regular reading of German ciphertexts, therefore, with the help of Polish cryptologists the British deciphered the Enigma code in time, this is the result of several facts

[maxs]

Loved the movie, but still cant quite believe that they didnt think about searching for reoccuring words earlier instead of just trying to bruteforce the code.

[robinbockman]

The machine was actually called Victory and had only one task.

[Sunspot.]

And because his brain interprets signals differently than "normal" people, he was deemed abnormal, even evil. Who is to judge who is right?

[ianrobinson]

Surely one would have looked at expected words at the very beginning of trying to break the code………?