Making the Enigma ciphers for the film "Enigma"
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The German Army signals, in the Cottage
Hester had stolen the Kestrel Enigma settings.
March 1943.
27 III II. V.. LZC DV LF NQ GE OS FK EW MR IT HK
28 IV. V.. III XRV SY EK NZ OR CG JM QU PV BI LW
29 V.. II. IV. TPK JT NW DU EO KV BY FS HQ IM LX
April 1943
16 III IV. V.. MCS RW OQ GI AZ EJ MS CU DH FY BP
17 III V.. IV. RXO NP JV LY IX KQ AO DZ CR FT EM
18 I.. V.. III KJD NC BJ RU YE IL QM PK TG XD AN
Hester tried again, in the Cottage, to make sense of the Enigma messages.
This time she started with the earliest message, from the 28th March.
STNX
B28/03/43 1930 5886 SF282 A236
OKH DE ADU (1830) 174= QAP CWU=
UFJZS NKIRA CGTPF UONXD GQMPU QXUGF OWEZS TCBJD
JLFME AZQRM NZZYI CGSSR YOFQX ADSPU QIMXM MELYR
XKXYI MDEEW ISKDP RSTFR TCOKB GGQTQ KPKMP NCCGH
YUVJO TIVMA IVIGK WQKWJ FOYMR VFBVY RKEZF SYCBY
QQSOQ CIZUU SUTB
So Hester set up the Enigma machine on the Kestrel settings
for 28th March 1943.
Click here to decrypt this message.
Is it German?.
Then a later message, from 17th April.
Click here to decrypt this message.
What was this?
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