Reconstructing the plug orders for intercepted Enigma Uhr messages

2025/07/04 by Craig Heath · 1 voice
Engineering · Computer Science · #IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security #Algorithms and Data Compression #Cryptographic Implementations and Security

paper · doi:10.1080/01611194.2025.2507024

openalex publication_date 2025/07/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14

Abstract

This study of recently discovered World War 2 German Air Force Enigma cipher messages that used the relatively rare Uhr attachment suggests a cryptanalytic method which may have been used by the British Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS).

Discussions

• “Although the words are essentially synonymous in normal usage, in this article we will consider the *order* of letters in a particular pair of plugs separately from the *sequence* of the full set of [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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