What impact did code and encryption have on the lives of people during world war one?

i need to know. please. i'm doing a project and my parnter didnt do their half of the work so now i have to do the other half and i need help answering these questions. pleasee help.





also how does code and encryption connect with today.





what connections can be made?





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What impact did code and encryption have on the lives of people during world war one?
The biggest impact was that insufficiently secure German codes led to America joining the war.





The "Zimmerman telegram" to Mexico offered them large chunks of the southern USA if they would declare war. Germany thought that if the USA had to fight on a southern land front, plus suffer unrestricted submarine attacks on its east coast shipping, it would soon have to agree to peace terms. Britain intercepted and decoded the telegram, it was published in the USA, and when Zimmerman in Berlin said "Yes, I wrote it", it was enough for the US Congress to declare war a few days later.





Modern computer-based encryption techniques are unrelated to those of WWI. However, general principles about code systems management still apply, and always will.
Reply:The impact was huge. Each nation encoded their messages, intercepted their enemies' messages (and their friends' as well), and tried to break their codes. The Allies succeeded in breaking several German Army codes in WWI, and captured a codebook from a sunken U-boat to give them some Navy codes as well.





The British did not use codes over their frontline field telephones, which employed 'ground return' circuits and were capable of being picked up by the enemy. After one disastrous attack on the Somme, they found a complete copy of their attack plan in a captured German bunker!





The subject is a large one, difficult to summarize in one brief message. I recommend doing some reading.
Reply:you use it every day when you are dealing with your own finances, work related technology and even daily computing...either on Internet or work network...it keeps phone lines working ,...it keeps the neighbor from having the same garage door opener code as you...it keeps burglars from getting into your home.


Code and encryption was the way information was moved between allies and enemies during the war. if you could intercept a coded message and break it you had a distinct advantage over the enemy or you could prepare for a devastating assault that would otherwise kill hundreds of people.





that is it in a nutshell