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Originally Posted by Puster Bill
Quote:
Originally Posted by Contact
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Originally Posted by Puster Bill
Contact 1604/2/1 17
QBWL DTOQ XPOA EDEG XLJG BAFE IEDF KLLN DDQW OATY
XMXV HXRC QVQL VJSZ RCLP QBWL DTOQ
SK
The ground settings are the same as yours, using the actual u-boat procedures from http://users.telenet.be/d.rijmenants/en/enigmaproc.htm (minus the bigram tables)
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Something is wrong with this message on my end. Did you made it all exact the same way as I cyphred that message ?
B | II VI VIII | 25 24 05 | AS BG CZ DK FM HU IT NP OQ RW | MBH ERS ?
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My "ground settings" are the same. In other words, this part is the same:
B | II VI VIII | 25 24 05 | AS BG CZ DK FM HU IT NP OQ RW
My indicators, if you looked at standard Ubootwaffe procedure, were buried in the first and second (and last two) groups, with padding applied. The first two groups and last two groups are QBWL DTOQ. Per standard procedure, the first character of the first group, and the last character of the second group, are "padding" that can be ignored, giving a cipher indicator of BWL DTO. Set the wheels to BWL, then type in DTO to get the message setting.
For a real Ubootwaffe message I would have enciphered the first two groups with a bigram table, but I don't have one handy, so I went easy on you 
The first line is a preamble with the entity the message is for (you), the time sent, the date sent, and the serial number of the message, follow by the number of groups.
The last "SK" is a Morse prosign for "End of Schedule" .
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THAN KSFO RTHE CONG RATU LATI ONSB UTIT SNOT ROCK ETSC IENC EXXX
Yesterday reading the link you provided to those procedures I noticed the repeat of same two groups in the begining and at the end. So I had a clue that you've changed the kennengrupen but could not figure out what they were. Probably due to late night time here

My bad, sleepy head ain't working right when it comes to figuring out things

I am going to study the procedure and hopefully will use it later.
Till now I was using the Enigma codebook tool which I find the way too easy already
P.S. Could I have another message to crack, please ?