What did Rejewski develop for decrypting Enigma?
Cryptologic bomb
Enigma machine
Lorenz cipher
Ultra
Answer
The cryptologic bomb, developed by Rejewski, was a device used to decrypt messages encrypted by the Enigma machine. It was an electromechanical device that used a series of rotors to simulate the Enigma's encryption process. By setting the rotors to different positions, the bomb could test different possible key settings until it found one that decrypted the message.
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