Enigma Flashcards
“Sounds made by enemy wireless transmitter immediately before it begins to broadcast a coded message”
WhispersLexicon of Cryptology, 1943
Where did Jericho work before the war?
Kings, Cambridge
When is Enigma set?
Feb-43
What was Jericho’s discipline at Kings?
Mathematics
Porter at Kings?
Kite
Bedder at Kings?
Dorothy Saxmundham
Where was Jericho living in Bletchley before his breakdown?
White Hart InnShenley Church End
Who was Jericho’s tutor at Kings?
Alan Turing
Turing’s book
On Computable Numbers
Jericho’s first year research
Riemann’s theory of prime numbers
Turing’s teddy bear
Porgy
Jericho recruited by …
FJ Attwood - professor of ancient history, dean of college
What languages does Jericho speak?
German
Perfume Jericho buys Claire Romilly
Ashes of Roses by Bourjois
Which hut is Logie the acting head of?
Hut 8
Recently deceased cryptographer
Dilly Knox GMC
The “six little fishes”
Shark, Limpet, Dolphin, Oyster, Porpoise, WinkleGreatest of these is Shark - U-Boat code
German name for Shark
Triton - son of Poseidon (twisted seashell)
What makes Shark so difficult?
Fourth rotor
Head of Naval Section at Bletchley
Sir Leonard Skynner OBE
Names of the two code book
Short Signal BookShort Weather Cipher
Machines used to help break Enigma
Bombes
What word do the Germans transmit to indicate a change of codebook?
Akelei
What hut does Claire work in?
Hut 3
“Message written in cipher or in some other secret form which requires a key for its meaning to be discovered”
Cryptogram
Puck’s real name
Adam Pukowski - Polish
What name does Turin give the redesigned bombe?
Agnes
US Navy Liaison Officer
Lt Kramer
Jericho’s new landlady
Mrs Ethel Armstrong - Commercial guesthouse, Albion Street
Messages enciphered the reciphered
Kisses - XX
Hut 8’s resident Marxist
Baxter
New transmitter at …
Magdeburg - 2,000 mile, 145 foot range
GH Hardy’s famous …
… apology
Inventor of the Enigma machine
Arthur Scherbius - killed by runaway horse, 1929
Attwood’s poem …
“The Kraken sleepeth” - Tennyson
Recently deceased author
Virginia Woolf - suicide
Whose interpretation of Hamlet?
Gielgud
Hut 6
German army and Luftwaffe
Hut 3
Hut 6 decrypts are translated and dispatched
Duty Officer in Hut 3
Colonel Coker
Where had Baxter been a lecturer?
LSE
Mr Wigram works for …
Cabinet Office
Photos on wall in meeting room
King George VI and Admiral Donitz
Naval officer with the eye-patch
Lt Cave
Nickname for U-Boats
Hearses
“To steal enemy cryptographic material; any object stolen form the enemy that enhances the chances of breaking his codes or ciphers”
Pinch
Jericho’s books
Agatha ChristieTwo volumes of George Shoobridge GarrPrincipia MathematicaTuring’s On Computable Numbers paperA Mathematician’s Apology - GH Hardy
Jericho’s etching
King’s College chapel
Where in London is BP run from?
SIS HQ, Office block near Broadway, St James
What reward did the codebreakers get for breaking Shark?
£100
Crossword clue: German town partly in French disagreement with Hamelin
Ratisbon
Crossword clue: Fill up ten
Plentiful