Challenge: Coding with the Enigma

(upbeat music) … - [Instructor] I met this web page, … the Computer Museum of America … where it talks about the Enigma Machine. … I'll scroll down and you can read the story … about the Enigma, but what we want to do is take a look … at the Enigma Machine, I'll right click and view image. … And then once there, … I want to just point out a couple things. … Right up at the top, that's called the rotors … and we will be manipulating the rotors. … Then down below on the lower part, … which looks like a typewriter, … these are the stickers, which is the switchboard. … Now we're not going to do anything with the stickers … but let's see how this works. … We'll go to this webpage, the Enigma Machine simulator. … Now there are others, but I found this to be user-friendly. … Now, once I'm here, … we're going to manipulate what we call the rotors. … As you can see the plain text, … and what we're going to do is take this out … and I'm going to type password. … Now down below, as I manipulate the rotors …