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Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn
Hello ExFishermanBob,
Thank you for your constant efforts to improve your amazing tool ! 
It would be very useful for DEF players to know when in RL the encrypted messages (with Enigma) have been sent. Because they have to know the RL date of the messages to set the Enigma machine with the proper key to be able to decrypt them. So, I though that it would have been useful to add another column for the RL date of the messages, next to the in-game date column. That would be also useful to sort the new messages with the RL date !
Best regards,
F. |
Thank you - I missed that in the upload / download listing. How are you then getting the messages out, or do you hand-transcribe them to paper?
I've noted that there is a python library for Enigma messages, I could add it and see if it works as well.
Off-topic, I have been thinking about an instant-messaging client but how it would work with boats being at different dates is something to puzzle over. I suppose BdU would receive all messages, with the relevant WWII date, and UBoat captains would see messages that happen to cross their time-line as it were. The problem will be keeping the IM client in time with the game-time (e.g. when compression is used). I'll have to ponder.