Cracking the Enigma Code

Posted: 22/01/2015

On Wednesday 21st January, the Fourth Form Head of Year enjoyed a presentation led by the Education Officer from Bletchley Park, who spoke about the Enigma Machine and its 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 different settings. (That is 158 quintillion and would take longer than the history of the Universe to work through manually).

Pupils heard about codes and cyphers and all took part in both cracking them and deciphering them. After the session pupils stayed behind to ask more questions and to have a go at pressing keys. The machine on display was the same one which was used in the film, ‘The Imitation Game’ and our speaker had met Benedict Cumberbatch.