Enigma Benutzer in Schulung (that is, user in-training)

[Curtis Vaughan (ACSS)]

Ok, we'll just say nooby as the title.

Got my Enigma Touch (YEAH!). Got through the beginning of the manual and was able to decipher the practice message on pg. 12. 

Thereafter, however, I am lost. 

I noticed K8J's message and thought, Ok, hopefully this will be a good test for me to figure this out, but nope. Not getting something. To start with the Daily Key sheet has more info then the practice message's. But maybe I'm supposed to use it like an Army sheet and not a Luftwaffen (so he seems to hint)?

Where's the best resource to better understand the additional settings for the Enigma Touch, which resource is much like the first part of the manual. That is, where it provides a more step by step instruction.

Then I can hopefully also move on to Drew's signature and to the Midnight Enigma challenge page that's under development.

Thanks for any help! 

Curtis

[jue...@e-basteln.de]

Hi Curtis,

If you have worked your way through the practice messages in the user manual, you are doing great! (That part of the manual could do with a slightly slower pace, I think -- explaining the mixed use of letters vs. numbers for the rotor positions, and maybe starting with a practice message which doesn't have the added catch of using last day's key... I'll revise that in the next round of edits.)

The 2744 key sheet used by K8Jeff has two further complications which were added to the procedures later: It uses the rewirable reflector D (Umkehrwalze D, UKWD) -- that late addition to the Enigma is explained in chapter 3 of the Enigma touch manual. And it uses two "Zusatzsteckerverbindungen" (additional plugboard connections) -- these are explained in the vertical-running small print in that column: At 15:00 hours, plugboard connection 1 is replaced by the first additional connection, and at 23:00, plugboard connection 2 is replaced by the second extra connection. 

I am not aware of a tutorial-style walk-through which covers these advanced variants of the crypto procedures. But given the quick progress you have already made, maybe these hints already help to work through them?

Having said that -- I have not been able to decode K8Jeff's message yet. He may have interpreted part of the crypto procedures different from my understanding. I sent him a private message earlier today and am waiting to hear back -- maybe there will be some additional clarification on his test message soon.

Cheers,

Jürgen