Re: Enigma Variations and UKW A

Matt R <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.cryptography.bletchley-park
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--- Frode Weierud <[email protected]> wrote:
> As you can see from this article the wiring of UKW A was recovered 
> analytically because we never had come across a real UKW A where we
> could 
> measure the wiring. And as far as I know this is still the case. After
> 1945 
> nobody has ever seen a UKW A. My question is simple:
> 
> Why do you think we have never found a Umkehrwalze A?
> We know they existed. The Poles recovered the wiring.
> 
> The quiz if open.
> Unfortunately, I am not in a position to offer any other prize than the
> truth.

Hi Frode, thanks for the puzzler,

Uneducated guess #1: The UKW A's were sent back, rewired, and reissued as
something else (B's?)

-- Matt


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