Enigma M3

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The Public Enigma Simulator. On this site you can download the Public Enigma Simulator which is an exact software replica of the authentic Enigma machines used on the field during World War II. The Public Enigma is free to download and can be used for non-commercial or educational purposes. Enigma M3 is a free iPhone app I released back in 2009. At the time, I was developing a course for middle schoolers on cryptography.One of the topics covered is the Enigma machine, an electromagnetic device used by the Germans to encrypt messages during World War II.Learning about this ingenious device inspired me to write this app.

This page includes various examples of real, contemporary Enigma messages (collected from several sources, acknowledged below). You can decrypt these with the Enigma Simulator app (see the User Guide).

The plain text of the messages is of course in the German language, and may include abbreviations and conventions such as 'X' for a space, 'J' for a quotation mark or 'Q' for the two characters 'CH', so further interpretation and translation will be needed to produce an understandable message in English. Also, being real messages and Enigma machines having no backspace key, there are occasional typos! The decrypts and translations are on another page if you would like to check your results.

Enigma Instruction Manual, 1930

Machine Settings for Enigma I/M3
Reflector:	A
Wheel order:	II I III
Ring positions:	24 13 22
Plug pairs:	AM FI NV PS TU WZ

This message is taken from a German army instruction manual for the Enigma I (interoperable with the later navy machine, Enigma M3).

Message key: ABL

GCDSE AHUGW TQGRK VLFGX UCALX VYMIG MMNMF DXTGN VHVRM MEVOU YFZSL RHDRR XFJWC FHUHM UNZEF RDISI KBGPM YVXUZ

Turing's Treatise, 1940

Machine Settings for Enigma K Railway
Wheel order:	III I II
Ring positions:	26 17 16 13

Message included in a document written by Alan Turing for new codebreaker recruits at Bletchley Park.

Message key: JEZA

QSZVI DVMPN EXACM RWWXU IYOTY NGVVX DZ---

Operation Barbarossa, 1941

Machine Settings for Enigma I/M3
Reflector:	B
Wheel order:	II IV V
Ring positions:	02 21 12
Plug pairs:	AV BS CG DL FU HZ IN KM OW RX

Artboard 2 2 4 player games. Sent from the Russian front on 7th July 1941.The message is in two parts:

Message key: BLA

EDPUD NRGYS ZRCXN UYTPO MRMBO FKTBZ REZKM LXLVE FGUEY SIOZV EQMIK UBPMM YLKLT TDEIS MDICA GYKUA CTCDO MOHWX MUUIA UBSTS LRNBZ SZWNR FXWFY SSXJZ VIJHI DISHP RKLKA YUPAD TXQSP INQMA TLPIF SVKDA SCTAC DPBOP VHJK-

Message key: LSD

SFBWD NJUSE GQOBH KRTAR EEZMW KPPRB XOHDR OEQGB BGTQV PGVKB VVGBI MHUSZ YDAJQ IROAX SSSNR EHYGG RPISE ZBOVM QIEMM ZCYSG QDGRE RVBIL EKXYQ IRGIR QNRDN VRXCY YTNJR

U-264 (Kapitänleutnant Hartwig Looks), 1942

Machine Settings for Enigma M4
Reflector:	Thin B
Wheel order:	β II IV I
Ring positions:	01 01 01 22
Plug pairs:	AT BL DF GJ HM NW OP QY RZ VX

Sent from a U-boat on 25th November 1942, this message was enciphered using their standard-equipment Enigma M4 machine.

Message key: VJNA

NCZW VUSX PNYM INHZ XMQX SFWX WLKJ AHSH NMCO CCAK UQPM KCSM HKSE INJU SBLK IOSX CKUB HMLL XCSJ USRR DVKO HULX WCCB GVLI YXEO AHXR HKKF VDRE WEZL XOBA FGYU JQUK GRTV UKAM EURB VEKS UHHV OYHA BCJW MAKL FKLM YFVN RIZR VVRT KOFD ANJM OLBG FFLE OPRG TFLV RHOW OPBE KVWM UQFM PWPA RMFH AGKX IIBG

Scharnhorst (Konteradmiral Erich Bey), 1943

Machine Settings for Enigma M3
Reflector:	B
Wheel order:	III VI VIII
Ring positions:	01 08 13
Plug pairs:	AN EZ HK IJ LR MQ OT PV SW UX

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This message was sent from the battleship Scharnhorst on 26th December 1943, the day on which it was sunk by torpedoes from British destroyers.

Message key: UZV

YKAE NZAP MSCH ZBFO CUVM RMDP YCOF HADZ IZME FXTH FLOL PZLF GGBO TGOX GRET DWTJ IQHL MXVJ WKZU ASTR

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Ralph Erskine for discovering the 1930 example message, published by Frode Weierud. Turing's Treatise on the Enigma was preserved in the US National Security Agency archives and released to the public in 1996; a version transcribed by Ralph Erskine, Philip Marks and Frode Weierud is available. The Operation Barbarossa message was published by Geoff Sullivan and Frode Weierud as part of their project to discover the keys for many unbroken Enigma messages. The machine settings for the U-264 message were discovered as part of Stefan Krah's M4 Message Breaking Project. The Scharnhorst message was also decrypted as part of the M4 Project.

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An Enigma machine that was used by the Nazis to encrypt secret messages during World War II is up for auction later this week.

'This machine being auctioned was designed by the German Navy and was dubbed Funkschlüssel or M3,' explains Los Angeles auction house Nate D. Sanders Auctions, in a statement. There were 17,576 ways to rotationally position the rings around the machine's three cipher rotors, enabling a mind-boggling number of combinations.

The machine uses a QWERTZUIO mechanical keyboard, which lit up when the device was being used.

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'Enigma machines are now very scarce, as Germans were ordered to destroy them to prevent them from falling into Allied hands,' Sanders said, noting that Sir Winston Churchill also ordered all Enigma machines to be destroyed at the conclusion of the war. 'Only about 250 Enigma machines used during WWII are now believed to still exist. Machines having matching parts, such as this example are scarcer,' the auction house explained.

The Enigma machine being auctioned was designed by the German Navy. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

The auction is set to take place May 30 and bidding for the Enigma machine will start at $200,000.

Allied efforts to decode the machine, specifically the work of pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing, were depicted in the movie 'The Imitation Game.' Turing and his fellow codebreakers at Bletchley Park in southern England developed a machine called the Bombe that helped decipher the encrypted German messages.

'From mid-1940, German Air Force signals were being read at Bletchley and the intelligence gained from them was helping the war effort,' the Imperial War Museum explained on its website. The German Navy's communications, however, were more complex and Turing worked to develop a technique he dubbed 'Banburismus' to crack the naval Enigma messages from 1941.

Bidding for the Enigma machine starts at $200,000. (Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

Three Poles who worked with Allied codebreakers to crack the German Enigma cipher codes were honored by the global Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014.

Only about 250 World War II Enigma machines are believed to exist, according to auction house Nate D. Sanders.(Nate D. Sanders Auctions)

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In 2017 an Enigma Machine bought for about $114 at a Romanian flea market sold at auction for $51,500, as CNN reported.

This story has been updated to clarify the vast number of combinations offered by the Enigma machines.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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