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Re: the enigma machine
Posted by: J.T. McDaniel ()
Date: February 11, 2002 10:50PM

Not authoritative, but probably because they were easy to transmit/transcribe, and an arbitrary number of letters in each group doesn't give any clues about the words, which you'd get if you just wrote down the substitutions. (For instance, in English, there are only two words of one letter, and not that many more with only two.) Stringing all of the letters together without any spaces would probably make for decoding errors because it would be too hard to keep track of just where you were.

J.T. McDaniel

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