SASKATOON Recovered from a German submarine, a Second World War message-encryption machine known as an enigma has landed in Saskatoon at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. The enigma machine is a cipher device developed to protect military communications. It was invented by Dutchman Hugo Koch in 1919 and was mainly used for business purposes. According to the exhibit titled Cipher-Decipher, the enigma machine was adapted by the Germans and used to transmit secret messages during the war. “As you put your message in it, the machine randomly spits out a string of letters. So to be able to then put the random string of letters back into the enigma machine to spit out the message you had to have the proper settings,” curator and exhibit manager Heather Fraser said.
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