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Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ?
Posted by: ThomasHorton ()
Date: April 21, 2011 04:49PM

You could find out yourself by downloading any of the Enigma cipher machine simulators that are out there.

The time consuming operations would be the setting up of the wheels and punchboard and the manual writing down of the output.

I imagine that it would take a while which is why the messages also used code words.

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How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Richard Milkcow 04/20/2011 10:43AM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? ThomasHorton 04/21/2011 04:49PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Seeker 04/25/2011 06:16PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Ken Dunn 04/25/2011 08:43PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Dan Girard 04/28/2011 12:35AM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? ThomasHorton 04/28/2011 05:03PM
Re: How long it was necessary to decode Enigma messages ? Dan Girard 04/28/2011 06:40PM


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