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Originally Posted by edNorth
Rest be intercept and/or typing errors, post processing that is.
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Two things need to be considered:
There was only one way to decipher an Enigma message that would produce German language, anything else would produce nonsense.
Once the day's settings were discovered, these were set up on a modified British cipher machine (
Typex) and the operator typed in the cipher text. Unlike the Enigma, the Typex printed out the deciphered result on to paper. This reduced the possibility for error but did not of course eliminate it when reports (what we have now) were compiled.