Re: Enigma Variations and UKW A

Eugene Griessel <eugene-8/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.cryptography.bletchley-park
Organization Noordhoek Henge
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On 30 Mar 07, at 11:26, Frode Weierud wrote:

> Why do you think we have never found a Umkehrwalze A?
> We know they existed. The Poles recovered the wiring.

If they were all withdrawn from service by 1938 (if I remember correctly) 
would it not have made sense, from a security point of view, to have had 
them all destroyed?  I bet the reason is far more esoteric than that but I 
can't think of an alternative offhand.


Eugene L Griessel                  
eugene-AVrJXHaavB/[email protected]                                     

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