Re:Unbroken Enigma Message
by Snild on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:06PM
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(I'm definitely not an expert. Grains of salt encouraged.)
There were no checksums, so incorrect ciphertext is possible.
But Enigma is a stream cipher, so if there was a missing character or someone bumped the wheel halfway through, it should still be possible to find two separate solutions that produce the plaintext before and after the error, respectively.
There were no checksums, so incorrect ciphertext is possible.
But Enigma is a stream cipher, so if there was a missing character or someone bumped the wheel halfway through, it should still be possible to find two separate solutions that produce the plaintext before and after the error, respectively.