Message 16 First Prize: £1800 to be awarded to the first team or individual to submit a complete correct decryption of both sections within the rules of the challenge. Winners may be required to submit any working and/or program code used to obtain their solution. To be published on 25th March Solution Deadline: 21st April Dear friends, at last we have the material we need to begin an attack on the French machine. The information gleaned by our agent concerning much of the internal wiring of the machine may be found in these documents: Rotor1 wiring Rotor2 wiring Reflector wiring The fragment of decrypted plaintext found in the grate reads as follows: "ain. The new cipher is, beyond doubt, the most ingenious and the most secure in the world today and messages enciphered using its rotary mechanism will frustrate the efforts of the most ardent cryptanalysts for years to come. In the meantime our" It is presumably part of the plaintext giving rise to the ciphertext found in the machine nearby, as you may read below. Following the Professor's brilliant insight it may be possible to locate the portion of the ciphertext corresponding to this fragment using the fact that no letter is ever enciphered as itself, though this will prove an arduous task without a machine to accomplish it. Beyond that, the lack of knowledge of the remining wiring pairs in the second rotor leaves us a mere half million possibilities to check, but perhaps this too could be automated? Wishing you the best of luck my dears, Yours, The Countess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