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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by hinkley on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:33PM (#36485441)
Garbled message, or garbled key? I wonder how often mis-keyed messages were sent out. Not typos in the message, but setting the initial state to the wrong value. Transposition, for instance.
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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by nwallin on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:19PM (#36487586)
Garbled message. If it were a garbled key, that would explain why the original commo couldn't/didn't decrypt it, but if it were just a garbled key, modern cryptanalysis would have decrypted it already.
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