Finding the Relative Pins and Lugs settings =========================================== [Excerpts from TICOM I-175 (interview of Alfred Pokorn)] This consists in setting, on every wheel, the pins in the correct sequel of active or inactive positions, but without beginning the sequel at the correct spot of the circumference of the wheel. E.g. Letters on the wheel: A B C D E F G H I J K ... Absolute correct sequence: + + - + - - - + - + + ... Relative correct sequence: - + + + - + - - - + - ... There is but one way of setting the lugs on the drum bars. This, and the setting of the pins, makes the internal setting of the converter. The clear text of a broken message and the cipher text of the same, are written one under the other, to show over how many letter-spaces the printing wheel turned before printing every cipher letter. As Z and A are, on the printing wheel, side by side, clear A would result in cipher Z by the space O, {the author named the space, the Key ("K"), which is part of the KeyStream}, in cipher A by the space 1, in cipher B by the space 2, etc. Clear B would result in cypher Y by the space 0, in cypher Z by the space 1, in cypher A by the space 2, etc. E.G. Clear: R E Z Y O U R Cipher: E V D D C P S Spaces: 23 0 5 2 17 10 10 This gives a sequel of spaces in the length of the broken message. The sequel is written in six tables, with 17,19,21,23,25 and 26 numbers respectively, written in one line. Every table indicates the wheel corresponding to the breadth of the case. E.g. Wheel 17: 23 0 5 2 17 10 10 21 8 20 11 15 7 12 25 0 5 25 6 2 3 22 8 9 20 2 25 5 25 3 17 21 9 6 20 9 8 0 25 4 4 The spaces showing in one column (one under the other) have been produced with the wheel being in a certain position, identical for all the spaces in that column. From the spaces in a column being large or small. it can be said whether the pin in that position of the wheel must have been active or inactive. Active pins have contributed to make the space large. Small spaces in one column show that the wheel must have been inactive in that position. The sequel of pin positions for the wheel above would be: + - - - + - - + - + - + - ? + - - By comparing the different wheels, sequels of pin positions, though incomplete, can be made up for most of the wheels. By continued comparing and correcting the sequels, they can be made complete. By comparing them with the turns made by the printing wheel to produce every cipher letter, moreover, the working of the drum bars, and the positions of the lugs on them, can be deduced. The result is the complete, though relative, internal setting of the converter. Before deciphering of other messages with the same internal settings, the absolute internal setting has to be found.