The cache is a medium sized container and holds log book and
pencil. There is room for travel bugs and coins. I have included a
First to Find prize of a
unactivated LizardToad Decypher Coin for the first to crack the
code. Good luck and happy hunting.
The listed coordinates are false and
will take you to the middle of a lake. The cache is within 800m of
the posted coordinates. To find the cache you must break the Enigma
code first. How you achieve this is up to you. The Cache should be
an easy find after you have mastered the Enigma machine. There
is no hidden tricks, all the information
needed has been given to decipher the coded message. All you need
to do is work out what to do with this information.
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ENIGMA CODED MESSAGE FOLLOWS
...............................
8th January 1942 Beginnen
Sie Position = LPW
MPXBB AHKDM AZHCT QVAFP TGCKZ
KTGHU CWNDF QIXDK QJFYM SAWGA
VADCM NRMKE KYDHL ZDNVE QNWFS
WGYVD YJRIE QCJAF LVGXB HQFRS
IMCMC SEZGJ QCFOS OVQJW NMJTX
PSCXZ QCBNV PSFDN JUTKU OZRZQ
LXSAO VKVJF UYBGW NSTFN DHDPW
IXFVM ZMREN WAEZF BODHT HATIX
ZLDDB QBWXC HJRIX
The Enigma message above was intercepted on the 8th January 1942
and we were lucky to find a code book in a captured enemy
submarine. This is a copy from the actual code book.
08 | C | IV V III | 22 16 09 | BF CP EG IL KY MU NW OQ RX ST | LPW
YKI HBB KDS
Some Potentially Useful Information:
Machine Type: Wehrmacht
Umkehrwalze: C
Walzenlage: IV V III
Ringstellung: 22 16 09
Steckerverlendungen: BF CP EG IL KY MU
NW OQ RX ST
Message Grundstellung: LPW
for a full copy of the code book page
refer to the photo below.
The story of the famous Enigma cipher machine combines ingenious
technology, military history and the mysterious world of espionage,
codebreakers and intelligence into a
real thriller. Never before has the fate of so many lives been so
influenced by one cryptographic machine, as in the Second World
War. Enigma is the most famous and appealing example of the battle
between codemakers and
codebreakers. Enigma showed the
importance of cryptography to military and civil
intelligence.
Origin of the Enigma Machine.
With the rise in the early 1900's of wireless communication the
need for secure communications for both military as civilian use
became essential. The search to replace the impractical and
time-consuming hand ciphers began. In 1917, the American Edward
Hugh Hebern developed a cipher machine
with rotating disks, each disk performing a substitution cipher.
Hebern's idea was the base for many
similar machines, developed in several other countries.
In 1918, Engineer Arthur Scherbius
patented a cipher machine using rotors. The German Navy and Foreign
Offices were approached, but were not interested. In 1923, the
rights for the patents went to Chiffriermaschinen-AG, a firm with
Scherbius on the board of
directors, that commercialized the
machine. In 1927, Scherbius
bought the 1919 patent from of a similar machine from the
Dutchman Koch, in order to secure his own patent, approved in
1925.
The first cipher machine, Enigma A, came onto the market in
1923. It was a large and heavy machine with an integrated
typewriter and weighed about 50 Kg. Soon after
the Enigma B was introduced, a very similar machine. The
weight and size of these machines made them unattractive for
military use. The development of the reflector, an idea of
Scherbius' colleague Willi Korn, made it
possible to design the compact and much lighter Enigma C. Also, the
type writer part was replaced by a lamp panel. In 1927, the Enigma
D was introduced and commercialized in different versions, and sold
across Europe to military and diplomatic services.
The Swiss army used the Enigma K. The Italian Navy bought the
commercial Enigma D, as did Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
Several intelligence services succeeded in breaking some civil and
military versions. The British codebreakers for example cracked the Spanish Enigma
that was operated without a plugboard.
Japan used the Enigma T, also called Tirpiz Enigma, an
adapted version of the Enigma K. Japan also developed their own
version, with horizontally placed rotors. The messages of both
models T and K were broken as well.