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Are you guys crazy? |
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The Magic 8 Ball says....... |
2. |
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Does it really work? |
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Yes, it will decode Abwehr G-260, Abwehr G-312, Commercial D, Commercial K-470, Heer(Army/GAF), M3, M4, Norway, Polish Clone, Railway, Swiss K, and Tirpitz Enigma encoded messages. |
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Has it been tested? |
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Yes, we have tested the Abwehr G-312 against the CSG simulator. The Heer, M3 and M4 against several original German messages, compared it to the output of an Enigma-E. The Railway against the CSG simulator. The Tirpitz against the Risc OS Simulator Other models will be tested soon, we do not expect any problems |
4. |
Q. |
Why Bash? |
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To show the power and flexiblity of bash scripts. |
5. |
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I have an idea for the script, will you put it in? |
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Maybe. It depends on the idea or change. I am much less likely to put it in if you have modified the config files. These files are used by other enigma projects that I am working on and I don't want to have to recode those. There will eventually set up a feature request/idea page. |
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I modified the script and it doesn't work anymore, can you help me? |
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Maybe, but we will send the answers encoded with random machine settings. :-) |
7. |
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The script blows up with all kinds of errors when I run it. What's wrong? |
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Check your command line options carefully. There is minimal error checking at this point and incorrect settings drive the script nuts.
More error checking will be added later |
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I still can't get it to work, can you help? |
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Sure! Try some of the following settings. Then try changing one at a time till you get the hang of it. Just remember to replace enigma.sh with the version you are running.
Heeres (Army/GAF) Mode:
enigma.sh -M M3 -r AAA -m AAA -w 123 -s QAZXSWEDCVFRTGBNHYUJMKIOLP -u B
Enigma M3 Mode:
enigma.sh -M M3 -r AAA -m AAA -w 456 -s AXWDVRGNYJKO -u B
Enigma M4 Mode:
enigma.sh -M M4 -r AAAA -m AAAA -w B123 -s QWASZXERDFCV -u C
Enigma Railway mode:
enigma.sh -M R -r AAAA -m AAAA -w 123 -u R
Abwehr Enigma Mode:
enigma.sh -M A -r ASZX -m TRSD -w 312 -u A
Tirpitz Mode:
enigma.sh -M T -r RFWS -m GFSD -w 123 -u T |
