[Cryptography] Imitation Game: Can Enigma/Tunney be Fixed?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Jan 9 13:34:49 EST 2015
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> [...] gives an alphabet of 28 symbols, which encompasses the 26 letters
> and gives you two more - to use probably for "switch to numbers" and
> "switch to numbers then look up the number in a codebook" respectively.
No; you'd need a symbol to get back to letters again. In the old Teletype
days using the 5-bit Murray/Baudot code, one symbol was LTRS and another
was FIGS, both of which were state-independent and dropped you into the
appropriate alphabet.
Made for amusing times if LTRS/FIGS were not decoded properly due to
noise; no ARQ or FEC back then...
Either that, or your FIGS would act on the following symbol only, which I
suppose is do-able.
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