The Math Behind the Nazi Enigma Machine

While I struggle day after day to read a seemingly infinitely small portion of Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon on the subway each day, the folks at Numberphile whipped up this salient video that clearly explains the math behind the Nazi’s Enigma Machine.

Filed under: EE — by Becky Stern, posted January 14, 2013 at 12:00 am


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