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The Enigma Machine: Matt Salamone and Pete Mcilwee

The Enigma Machine used rotors to perform letter substitutions and a reflector to send the electrical current back through the rotors, scrambling the message. It had 15,576 possible rotor configurations and also included a plug board that paired letters, enhancing encryption. It encrypted by performing seven substitutions on each letter entered using the rotors and reflector, making the encoded message secure, though it had the flaw of not being able to encrypt a letter to itself.

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The Enigma Machine: Matt Salamone and Pete Mcilwee

The Enigma Machine used rotors to perform letter substitutions and a reflector to send the electrical current back through the rotors, scrambling the message. It had 15,576 possible rotor configurations and also included a plug board that paired letters, enhancing encryption. It encrypted by performing seven substitutions on each letter entered using the rotors and reflector, making the encoded message secure, though it had the flaw of not being able to encrypt a letter to itself.

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The Enigma Machine

Matt Salamone and


Pete McIlwee
Components of the Enigma
Machine
• Rotors-performs the
substitution by rotating.
• Reflector-resends the
current back through the
rotors.
• Plug board manually pair
two letters to each other
(for example, to make F
substitute for A and vice-
versa).
How the Enigma Machine Works
• Seven substitutions are
performed on one letter
entered. (Three from the
rotors, one from the
reflector and three again
from the rotors.)
• Each rotor is scrambled
and turns 1/26th of a
rotation every substitution
• 15,576 different rotor
states.
How it Works (cont.)
• The plug board enhances
the Enigma’s scrambling
mechanisms
• It was rewired by the
operator, but it only
effected a swap of the
letters.
• It was still flawed,
because it could not
encipher a letter to itself.
References
• http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/enigm
a/index.htm
• http://russells.freeshell.org/enigma/

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