[Cryptography] Rotor wiring on the Enigma

Richard Outerbridge outer at interlog.com
Tue Feb 24 13:17:09 EST 2015


> On 2015-02-24 (55), at 11:25:59, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> How was the wiring on the various rotors determined?  It would be too 
> dangerous to do it randomly, as one rotor could undo another, and none of 
> my texts seem to go into this.

They captured them.

> Also, I'd like to find a concise description on how the M-209 Hagelin 
> worked, with its interlocking lugs etc.

It’s an aperiodic maximal period mechanical multiplier.
__outer


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