[Cryptography] Rotor wiring on the Enigma
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Tue Feb 24 13:20:57 EST 2015
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015, Richard Outerbridge 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.
OK, I'll rephrase it: why was the wiring designed that way in the first
place?
> > 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.
Oddly enough, I can understand that :-)
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