plugboard

I think the author is too quick to dismiss the impact of the plugboard.

And RPG III for a reflection on its ancestry of Plugboard machines (not meant in a disparaging way).

Build a TLS proxy, a simple hex-dumping plugboard proxy, a CA library to do on-demand certificate generation.

Instead, write a plugboard proxy, and have it apply a static-keyed AES-CTR transform to the data.

And how can you spot intelligible German text if some letters are swapped by the plugboard?

So two steps: first solve for rotor settings with IC analysis, then solve the plugboard.

Or indeed, even the things he failed at: at their programming school he was not good with the accounting special-purpose plugboard machines).

Much of the plot is about him supposedly single handedly and against the will of Bletchley working on the Bombe when the Polish Bombe was a tried and true solution to Enigma-sans-plugboard already.

I'm not aware of any available plugboard proxy solution, so it would have the added complication of hacking it together.

I remember reading Alan Kay saying something about how programmers should go back and work with a plugboard for a while.

Solving the rotors to get to the plugboard isn't so easy!

If I open up the plugboard on my IBM 407 and rewire the connections, am I updating software or reconfiguring hardware?

I also dispute that a plugboard proxy is "more complicated" than "cryptographic port knocking".