Kriegsmarine Enigma Codebooks

[klh]

Defcom,

Thanks for the links, and welcome. I'm glad to see you here. I've been using your simulator since the Silent Hunter 2 days, and have enjoyed it.

By the way I'm currently looking for a simple morse code generator as well. It should allow to code text into symbols and uncode symbols into text, as well as it should be able to play morse sounds while in progress. However no special abilities for training is necessary. Simple procedures to code/uncode would do fine.

Made a wide search on google with no luck so far. Just plenty of generators online but I would preffer downloading it like software for often usage..
If somebody has an idea where could I find it, would be appreciated a lot..

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by Contact

By the way I'm currently looking for a simple morse code generator as well. It should allow to code text into symbols and uncode symbols into text, as well as it should be able to play morse sounds while in progress. However no special abilities for training is necessary. Simple procedures to code/uncode would do fine.

You already have such a decoder, sitting in your head.

Morse: Learn it, know it, use it.

It's the perfect form of communication, because it is pretty much medium independent. It can be written, transmitted via radio or audio, or by light, or by banging on pipes, whatever.

Even my 4 year old is starting to learn it.

[snwcrsh]

For those who are to lazy to learn it, you might want to look at this:

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/cgi-bin/morse.cgi

It does all Contact asked for, even the audio part.

Oh, but it's not downloadable. But I guess you can get the CGI if you ask them. It's pretty simple code actually. You could do it in a few perl lines...

Originally Posted by Puster Bill

You already have such a decoder, sitting in your head.

Morse: Learn it, know it, use it.

It's the perfect form of communication, because it is pretty much medium independent. It can be written, transmitted via radio or audio, or by light, or by banging on pipes, whatever.

Even my 4 year old is starting to learn it.

I'm in white jelous for your kid It will be absolutely easier for him/her to learn it since children always gets faster into new things than adults. As for me I don't realy need to know morse, cuz basicly I woun't be using it much anywhere. I thought of using morse code with addition to Enigma as it was in real life. But I don't want to learn everything by heart u know Well.. Not today definitely..

Of course I would consider of learning this "multiplication table" again if it would be possible to create a mod for SH3 or in the Future release of GWX4 to use Morse and/or Enigma like an optional feature. In this way learning new things would bring much more motivation

Originally Posted by snwcrsh

For those who are to lazy to learn it, you might want to look at this:

http://morsecode.scphillips.com/cgi-bin/morse.cgi

It does all Contact asked for, even the audio part.

Oh, but it's not downloadable. But I guess you can get the CGI if you ask them. It's pretty simple code actually. You could do it in a few perl lines...

Thanks for your effort, but this one I found in the first place myself. But as I said I'm looking for downloadable one and it's like number one priority for me

[Puster Bill]

Originally Posted by Contact

I'm in white jelous for your kid It will be absolutely easier for him/her to learn it since children always gets faster into new things than adults. As for me I don't realy need to know morse, cuz basicly I woun't be using it much anywhere. I thought of using morse code with addition to Enigma as it was in real life. But I don't want to learn everything by heart u know Well.. Not today definitely..

Of course I would consider of learning this "multiplication table" again if it would be possible to create a mod for SH3 or in the Future release of GWX4 to use Morse and/or Enigma like an optional feature. In this way learning new things would bring much more motivation

It's actually quite easy to learn as an adult, with the proper motivation.

My motivation was this: If I did not learn it fast enough, the Army would send me to some unpleasant profession, such as the infantry. For 4 years, I used Morse every single day.

I still use it, too, as a ham radio operator. And I get a swelling of pride when my kid goes "dadidadit dadadidah".

I've never been a big fan of machine read code, but if you want something that will copy Morse over the air, you can look at using HamScope, a free program you can download at http://www.qsl.net/hamscope/

It will translate audio Morse into characters for you, but not as good as a human ear. I've used it to do PSK31 and RTTY communications, by simply laying the microphone for the computer on the speaker of the radio, and the microphone of the radio up to the computer speakers.

Thanks, will take a look at hamscope. So far that I noticed it's for amateur users.. Can this program decrypt written morse code to text ?

[jorgegonzalito]

In this beautiful place in England called "Bletchley Park" British intelligence decodes the message machine "enigma", so not worth adding another task to the many that already have, not only as a commander but like everything else because your crew is drawn and in fact the entire submarine is you.

[Rambler241]

That historic mansion, and the remaining "huts" behind it housed the "Golf, Cheese and Chess Society" as it was mischievously nicknamed by many who worked there - GCCS - Government Code and Cypher School, the forerunner of the modern GCHQ. School it never was - some of the best brains in Britain worked there. The nearby railway station is about half way between Oxford and Cambridge, from which universities many of the best people were drawn, a good few in their early twenties.

Churchill called it "The goose which laid the golden eggs, but never cackled". A couple who met after the war, and married, followed the rules and never spoke about it to one another. After 1976, when its existence came to light when embargo dates were reached, they realised they'd worked there for several years, but had never met - not surprising, as at its peak, around 10,000 men and women filled the huts and the house - a shift system was in operation for most.

There's a museum there now, with working enigma machines and "bombes" - chains of (basic, no keyboard) enigma machines running through possible wheel settings. This gives the lie to movies which show enigma machines being seized from German submarines and ships - GCCS didn't need 'em - they had hundreds. What they needed was the wheels (changed and added to as the war progressed) and the code books with initial wheel settings, changed daily.

I believe the museum also has a working Colossus computer (or at least a good chunk of one), the world's first programmable computer, and necessarily top-secret for many years after the war. It was used (with several others later on) to decode the output of the "Super Enigma" machine - the Lorentz Cypher Machine. Colossus was never used on Enigma, despite what several movies, books, magazine articles and websites would have you believe.

[Zosimus]

[Rambler241]

A series of three excellent descriptions of Enigma and how it was broken - thanks, Zosimus.

The subject is necessarily simplified in parts, but well worth watching, even by those who know (or think they know) the story and the technology.

[Zosimus]

I'm glad you enjoyed it.