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Did the British troops have an enigma machine during the war? If so couldn't they just intercept the arrangement of rotors each day and decode messages as they
by prezjordan 12y ago
Did the British troops have an enigma machine during the war? If so couldn't they just intercept the arrangement of rotors each day and decode messages as they came in?
- MertsA 12y agoThe problem is intercepting the codebook. If they had the machine and could somehow intercept the codes then yes.
- kijin 12y agoAccording to Wikipedia [1], the codebooks were printed in red water-soluble ink. If a German ship wasn't already full of water by the time the Allies gained access to it, any German soldier could simply splash water (or blood) on the codebook, rendering it useless. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine#Details https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine#Details