The Fallacies Of Alan Turing's Personal Life

With the creation and use of the Enigma by the Germans the rest of the world needed geniuses who would be able to stop Enigma and help prevent further devastation caused by the the Nazi party. The Imitation Game, although mostly accurate about what the Enigma code was, portrayed many fallacies of Alan Turing’s personal life, and how the Enigma was cracked. The deciphering of the Enigma was said to have greatly shortened the length of the war as well as saving many Ally lives.
Although it is generally known that the Enigma was a cipher that troubled even the brightest of minds in all of England and other ally countries, although this is true there is a slight misconception of what the Enigma truly was. The Enigma was actually “built upon the simplest of all cipher types, the substitution cipher” which is

It was invented when “after World War I, several inventors turned their attention to mechanization of ciphering”, after which the “most successful” was invented by Arthur Scherbius, who called his invention the Enigma. It was only until 1923 that Germany had realised “how much damage had been done by the breaking of its ciphers by the allies in World War I” when they had officially Enigma as Germany’s standard ciphering system. The Enigma was only so hard to crack because it would change every day at midnight as well as “by adding complications to this simple code” made the Enigma a powerful and evasive code. The movie is mostly accurate in the sense of its explanation of the Enigma and what it does. It explains that the enigma is a German substitution cipher code, which changes every day at midnight. However,