Secret Codes for Spies?

Summary and Reaction

We are all spies and we all use secret codes every day. In barcodes, when I work i always have barcodes but we don't see them as secret codes. Barcodes give stores different types of merchandise their ow distinctive identity and price. The first codes used in spying was the begining of World War II. British intelligence used Morse code to send messages from Germany. Morse code is still used today. In this article it talks about the Enigma machine and how it was broken. A number of the England's brightest scientists and mathematicians were recruited to break the work. But their works were not recongnized because the mission was top secret. However they are all heros and everyone should give them credit.

Outside Reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine

I was fasinated by the Engima Machine so I read more about it on wikipedia. The Enigma machine was a cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. It looked like a type writer. It was used by the German military in World War II as it could decrypt a large number of messages that had been enciphered on the machine.