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Since we published the collection of unbroken German Army messages from 1941, a few of these messages have been broken. So far the keys for two days have been recovered; one of these messages was broken by a member of the M4 Message Breaking Project, Kevin Acres. Instead of waiting until the messages have been cleaned up and put into a format suitable for publishing, we have decided to release the Enigma keys first. In this way those of you who wish to hone their decoding skill have the opportunity to work on the real messages including garbles and other errors. We are convinced this will be a unique learning experience for those who want to get a feeling for what went on in Hut 3 at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
For the readers who would like to try their decoding skills we should like to mention a few important point. You can use any Enigma simulator that has been certified to be correct in the sense that it uses the correct wheel wiring and also very important, that handles the Enigma stepping correctly. First of all you have to set up your Enigma machine with the correct wheel order and Ringstellung. You then have to make the Stecker connections for that day. You are now ready to decipher a message. In the Enigma keys below we also give the message key, the starting position. You find the corresponding message keys under the column, Start. However, to get a real feeling for it you should recover the message key yourself by first setting the machine to the Grundstellung, the first group of the indicator, and then decipher the second group of the indicator. As an example we will take message Nr. 23, KHLPT, of 8 July 1941. Here the indicator is the two 3-letter groups, OKF QLV. Setting the Enigma wheels to OKF you then decipher the second group, QLV, which will give you PIK. You then set your Enigma machine to the starting position PIK. You are now ready to decipher message Nr. 23. The message starts: KHLPT CWSEB DDIRB ZUUBG, but the first group, KHLPT, does not belong to the cipher text. It is the discriminant, Kenngruppe, which tells the cipher operator which Enigma key has been used to encipher this message. You therefore have to start deciphering the from the second group, CWSEB. From here you are on your own. We wish you the best of luck.
For further information about our codebreaking project see our Web Portal: Breaking German Wehrmacht Ciphers.
Updated on: 04 August 2017
27 June 1941
Enigma keys for 27.06.1941
UKW : B W/O : 352 Stecker : AV BG CH EN FU KO MS PX RY TW Rings : RGP Message keys: No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 45 HXZKV SDG EKN LTA LVM 48 WRMKX BPG KGM CSX CXY 51 *1) PLDRV ZKT FLP [HLP] RTZ SCB Notes: 1) Nr. 51, PLDRV, was received on the 28 June 1941 at 0907.
8 July 1941
Enigma keys for 08.07.1941
UKW : B W/O : 432 Stecker : CY EL FH GS IJ KQ MW PV RZ TU Rings : PKF Message keys: No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 23 KHLPT OKF QLV PIK PMA
13 August 1941
Enigma keys for 13.08.1941
UKW : B W/O : 253 Stecker : AD BH FG IJ KN LZ MR OS PW QV Rings : THE Message keys: No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 7 KEJNQ AMQ LKF BRZ BXW
19 August 1941
Enigma keys for 19.08.1941
UKW : B W/O : 213 Stecker : AK BI DG FN HL JO MT QY RV UW Rings : YPC Message keys: No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 19 ALWOK ALY XQE BGO BLI
16 september 1941
Enigma keys for 16.09.1941
UKW : B W/O : 513 Stecker : AP BO CY DU ES FN GR IV JT LZ Rings : LSB Message keys: Incoming (Red) Messages No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 59 ADAFU LTB MMF SAU SDJ 60 CHAFU AIA XIE FUT FYQ Outgoing (Blue) Messages No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 69 DKAFU SDC JKP BOK CSW 70 NOEGP CSW MEK KLO KPH 71 HOEPG KPH YNH AFF AIL
27 september 1941
Enigma keys for 27.09.1941
UKW : B W/O : 421 Stecker : AG CP DK EL HQ IT JV MX OY RW Rings : YHO Message keys: Incoming (Red) Messages No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 114 DAFPX ZIP NDT WAS XGM 115 ----- SCJ RWT WAS XHK 116 ITF-- XHK FHP WAS XFF 117 -AQBH TJI KPJ GRA GUR Outgoing (Blue) Messages No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 103 ARPTZ NWH GGP SPE STG 104 ABBHQ STG YTF SAU SCJ 105 ANQIX XFG GSM SEE TJI 106 FDTZP GUR JPC HOR HQI
3 October 1941
Enigma keys for 03.10.1941
UKW : B W/O : 213 Stecker : BC DE FG HI JK LX MQ NO ST VZ Rings : TIP Message keys: No: Part: Kenngruppe: Indicator: Start: Stop: 4 NKMOW DTI AZZ SEE SKJ
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