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I don't completely understand your question but I will try to answer it. The wheels were specifically designed to do that. The internal wiring of the wheels wa
by lubeskih 7y ago
I don't completely understand your question but I will try to answer it.
The wheels were specifically designed to do that. The internal wiring of the wheels was random, but known. For example, every "Rotor I" that exists would have A wired to E, B wired K, C wired to some other letter on the other side etc... But then "Rotor II" would have A pointing to, let's say, M, B to L ..
And yes, they were specifically designed to do that, the whole point of it was for the electrical current to travel randomly and take an unique path throughout the rotors on each key-press.
Check out this more detailed article about the rotor wiring: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/wiring.htm https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/enigma/wiring.htm
Not sure if this answers your question. I'd be happy to clear out any confusions if you're more specific. :)
- kakwa_ 7y agoI'm probably completely wrong, but the wiring of the rotors makes me vaguely think of S-Boxes in modern algorithms. Not sure if the comparison holds to scrutiny however.
- notfashion 7y agoEach rotor implements a permutation of its input terminals. So maybe more like a p-box, but the difference is significant (only two wires in use at a any time, and one is in "reverse") so probably just thinking of it as a permutation is better.
- jedimastert 7y agoThanks for the response. I love the info provided. I guess my real question is this: if I wired a completely random wheel (of course making two for sender and receiver) and chucked it into an Enigma machine, would it work as intended, break some prescribed rule of the encryption, or just completely destroy the machine?