Silent Hunter 5 | Wolves of Steel | Enigma Machine Decoding Tutorial

Here is the extract from a recent video where we go through the Enigma machines decoding to show you how its done! i hope it helps
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[@Holdit66]

I spent a couple of hours on this today. I'd installed the WoS mod, saw the documentation for Enigma and thought "Yeah, fine I'll get round to looking at that sometime". Until...dah-dah-dit-dit-dah-dah and in comes an encrypted message. OK let's give it a go, following the instructions. There followed a humbling experience after which I was overawed with respect for the Enigma codebreakers, given that for a while it seemed that I would be unable to crack it even though I had an Enigma machine and the code books! It's very satisfying when you see an intelligible message start to emerge. Big kudos to the modders for this amazing piece of work.

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

wasn't it a machine not a person that broke one of there random code's shown in a movie - the imitation game film

[@mandalortemaan7510]

Meanwhile the Poles that cracked it in 1932

[@Eng_language_huyn9]

@@mandalortemaan7510 version for banks transfers. But it basics, its right, realy big work and help

[@Canzandridas]

@@creatorsfreedom6734 But someone had to make that machine lol

[@femfreq604]

Unbelieveable SH5 was a trainwreck when it arrived and modders turned it into the most defintive submarine simulation ever. If you´re on of these intelligent individuals that have fun challenging their cognitive skills with problem solution or complex games like modern jet flight sims or deep strategy games get this you will be not disappointed. Probably the most immersive sim you´ve ever played.

[@RandySavag]

I'm not even a big naval / aircraft strategy sim guy, but SH5 with TWoS and 1st person is the most immersive sim I've ever played hands down. I'm absolutely hooked.

[@jameslindsay5889]

@@RandySavag Same and I agree 👍

[@TheGochama]

@taff. Just a little tip to do the enigma about 1000x faster. At the bottom of the enigma keyboard there is s grey bar above that is a copper square. Click on the middle and it should check(you can now use ur keyboard instead of broken German mouse click nightmare ) second tip you can click on the right colum on ur scratch pad where it puts the descrambled code in and use it to write out the coded message then you can send it to ur ships journal so you won't lose it. Very important if its a 30 block message... Yes they get that big. And they will give you coordinates to patrol

[@TaffinExile]

thx

[@MBKill3rCat]

I know this is an old post, but when I type in the scratchpad in the rightmost column, it still activates all of the keypresses in the background, so I end up teleporting to the bridge, opening my map, pulling out my charts and submerging my sub, while trying to type in the message so I can hit 'send to log'. Is there any way to prevent this happening? It's incredibly annoying.

[@BreakTheYagura]

@@MBKill3rCat We are even older now, but: pause your game for the duration of the typing, that will prevent the hotkey actions! (for both descramble + typing the message to log)

[@MBKill3rCat]

@@BreakTheYagura Figured that out a while ago, but thank you :)

[@my3yorkies]

Amazing bit of kit. Maybe more amazing that it was cracked...some very smart people.

[@uteriel282]

without sombody stealing the codebooks it would have been impossible to crack it. so it was more luck than anything else that some british soldier found the books.

[@Justathought81]

Uteriel Germany would have lost anyway, they’d just have destroyed more lives

[@DragonZer0]

That was niffty that your were able to do that, and just think this was happen daily 70+ years ago.

[@TaffinExile]

amazing really

[@hotrodmercury3941]

I'm glad they included the enigma machine. Makes it fun to decode.

[@ConradsStudio]

That. Was. Cool.

[@TaffinExile]

thx

[@vdr1981]

"Laspazinaia" :D

[@XouZ88]

Einstein said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" Inventor of this machine "Make it as complicated as possible, but not too complicated"

[@dichebach]

I was half expecting it to ask for a calzone to be delivered . . .

[@tenpatrol]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="251">4:11</a> "Still with me? good" 🤣Thank you for the tutorial mate!

[@TheGamingSyndrom]

The first time i decoded a enigma message in wolfs of steel i had to figure all the stuff out myself Took an hour till it was decoded xF

[@armanerd5512]

Be right back guys, im gonna travel back in time and tell the Brits how to break the Enigma before anyone else did and thus become famous!

[@TaffinExile]

Sounds like a legit plan :-)

[@armanerd5512]

Taff in Exile I'll give you some credit for it fam

[@Kobaneko2005]

Would still need the machine...

[@conmcgrath7502]

I already did that, it's why Hitler committed suicide and I now own the internet, mua ha ha ha! I shall demand ONE MILLION DOLLARS !

[@RealismFTW]

So cool. I'm installing the mod as I write this. Just because of this video.

[@mrmcgreg]

gonna be absolute hell with my broken glitchy mousewheel lol

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="248">4:08</a> Hail Hydra. xD

[@rikkilleen3169]

Secret message decoded: "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

[@ginukeji]

You are a life saver.... Many thanks for taking your time to give us this!!!

[@jacobaubertin645]

MY BRAIN! AAAAAGHGHGH!

[@anthonysmith3593]

That was pretty interesting always wanted to know how they used those machines

[@filipposconstantinou799]

Thus is a just right before sleeping

[@mierzhen]

Decoded M4 Hydra message: _All UBoats in area y avoid nausea and headaches y hail hydrate_

[@Cybernaut76]

Wow! I would have felt MUCH SAFER about my information security if I was Kapitanleutnant in Kriegsmarine 80 years ago than I feel as a Windows user today (or maybe feel even as a Linux user someday).

[@flankerskioneniner4290]

Awesome

[@boguerogue]

Just received my first coded message...(rubbing hands together, cracking knuckles, begin)

[@Tocqueville69]

Thanks so much!! Now I don't feel like such a noob!

[@TaffinExile]

you are welcome..once it sinks in its surprisingly easy but until then it like an alien language

[@Le_Petit_Lapin]

Hmm, yes, I think I'll leave that optional module turned off. Surely after the first time you do it you're like "that was neat" but then after the 50th spam message from BdU you're just wishing you could delegate?

[@missinglink6676]

I hope this isn’t your weekly sh5 as it was a TAD short !,and you showed us this in your first use of the enigma machine .

[@TaffinExile]

nope dont worry, its pulled form last weeks video but i thought for anyone wanting to add the Enigma to their game a shorter tutorial would be of benefit. Next Sh5 is on Saturday as usual :-)

[@robb4840]

Thanks :) all tho by the time I set it up the enigma the actual message had disappeared such a glitchy game but I love it :)

[@jonnyb6570]

Thanks!

[@Scarecroweb]

I am trying to decode a message in August 31 1939, and I have to select Triton instead of Hydra but it wont let me select it its stuck on Hydra...

[@BreakTheYagura]

Check that the year on the piece of paper at the bottom of the left side tab for the Enigma, where you choose codebooks etc., has 1939 on it. If not use your mouse scroll/middle button to change it - you must not have any of those other books/papers open to change it. Hopefully this helps; it's all I know to advise you!

[@geandily]

mine was saying Triton too. But it's 1939 so it meant I did something wrong. Doublecheck your work; you are probably misinterpreting something because that should lead you to hydra. I did that and got the machine to point me to selecting Hydra in 1939. However, you could skip this process if you are in 1939 as it will always be hydra :)

[@IIKraftI]

Insane amount of combinations, even super computers today couldn't break it through brute force today before it would be changed again.

[@gbbarn]

I dont know if it has been attempted nor if it's possible to brute force the complete system since it's a combination of different physical factors: the scrambler starting position, the selection and arrangement of the scramblers and the ring and plugboards settings, for a ML algorithm to sort all of that without initial training it would be quite impressive and it would be considered a proper Artificial Intelligence capable of reasoning (we would all be doomed) although in 2017, a ML algorithm using statistical probability and with a lot of training broke the encryption with 90% accuracy in less than 10 minutes. But, It didn't 100% decipher it, it just used data from the training to translate the code into something understandable and they used just one key (the Germans would switch keys each month). It is always said that Turing decipher the enigma machine (or at least he takes all the credit) but in reality it was a polish mathematician who first decipher the system with the help of documents describing the inner working of the enigma machine provided by a German whistleblower back in the 20's, but because the Brits didn't think Germany could defy the british might, they decided that it wasn't important enough to decipher.

[@mehmetsahsert3284]

My brain melts how complicated it is. I cant believe a gay man managed to break it. Its too good to be broken.

[@Greensiteofhell]

No man or machine broke it.

[@Scarecroweb]

@@Greensiteofhell yes it was broken, infact both man and machine broke it ;)

[@Greensiteofhell]

@@Scarecroweb hehe, yeah you can say that.

[@Arsenic71]

It was broken in a way so that a cleartext letter would never be encrypted to the same letter in ciphertext.

[@Justathought81]

Hey thanks, worked perfectly well done

[@DapperGentsClub]

Followed your instructions and mine came out as gabarge, (Used all my letters not yours)

[@olisko3484]

thanks this helped a lot i wish i could turn the enigma machine off but its still there after ive removed it drom jsgme so i guess im forced to use it

[@martinmyggestik292]

Wow 😎 this mod is deep!

[@WolvesValleyFarm]

pffffffff I rewatched this like 7 times. I am sure I'm inputing everyting correctly into the engima according to your instructions. I am still getting absolute jibberish every single time.

[@konradheinkel8512]

GIBRALTARRR!!!

[@royrached6668]

All my childhood playing silence hunter I didn't knew that enigma do really existed in the game lol....

[@Malikyte13]

It doesn't. This is from the Wolves of Steel mod, without that mod you won't have access to the Enigma.

[@Canzandridas]

I know this is a bit old but if a cipher <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="260">4:20</a> is wrong does it mean that it's fake or that something went wrong? I know I followed every instruction correctly and the cipher is simply wrong, I'm at 1939 and the cipher is potsdam which is for 1941 onwards. I don't know if something's wrong or it simply is a fake message or what lol

[@peterattilakriszt3150]

Thx for this video, I used it for my enigma messages. But now I have problem. In 01.17.1940 (current date in the game) I recieved an another coded messages for a new task - so it is important - but the DBU date is 07.10.39. I should use this BDU date for setup my enigma but in the first book where I choose the month code stand on 1940 and I cant change it for 1939. In this way the whole process will be wrong. Should I choose october in 1940? Not logical. With January is not working I did it. So help me please, what should I do in this case! Thx for advance.

[@ole9201]

Nice Video ! Did you have a mod for the Enigma ?

[@BreakTheYagura]

It's in the Wolves of Steel megamod, found on subsim.com!

[@scottgarvey5779]

Wow, no wonder it took the allies a long time to work out how to crack the Enigma. They used the first computer ever to do it too.

[@Arsenic71]

No, they didn't, the first programmable computer was built in Germany in the 1930 by Konrad Zuse. It was called the Z1.

[@gojardalexandre1880]

I have a problem, I don't know how to activate the encrypted bdy ordrers add-on. it is marked "enable the add on in port" but I don't know how to do it, thanks

[@bellavecc2570]

enable like anyother mods....the enable the add on in port mean that you have to enable the mod in jsgme when your ship ingame is in port....if u make a clean install enable it

[@dsdwg6312]

Hi Taff, have you ever had any problems with playing games on youtube in terms of it being a copyright issue or does it not count as copyright when it is a game? Just wanted to know before I start adding gaming videos to my channel. Thanks

[@MAOofDC]

I think it falls under "fair use". I could be wrong though.

[@dsdwg6312]

thanks mate. Just started a channel and wanted to make sure it was OK to do this

[@TaffinExile]

Yes its a constant battle with false claims etc. 99% will allow game footage under fair use as I'm using it to create the episode, they provide the tools i create the story (game play) also adding commentary also add to this. However there is a constant battle with false claims for sounds images etc etc which can be very frustrating but is part and parcel of KZbin. Then there is the adapocolypse where KZbin constantly marks videos as non ad friendly and you have to request a manual review to grant monetization but the video requires a minimum of 1000 views...its a complete mess

[@dsdwg6312]

Taff in Exile thanks. Really helpful. Your videos are always great

[@olivialambert4124]

For the legal side of things, it depends. There hasn't really been a well determined argument either way on if games are fair use or if they come under copyright so both sides just assume they are right. However its very rare for a game dev to fight against anyone because they have seen the absolutely massive benefits of advertising through youtube to no cost. I know I've bought a number of games solely due to youtube (considering a few solely due to Taff), and indeed games are being designed around that concept. There are still a few which oppose youtubers, Nintendo being the only major company I can think of off the top of my head. However even though they have hit people with copyright they almost always strike the video and take it down, even though they currently don't have a clear legal case to do so. It is absolutely possible for someone to respond with the weight of law and take Nintendo to court for their actions but unfortunately its pretty rare to find anyone willing to put hundreds to millions of dollars into a legal battle to defend one single video from Nintendo, hence why there has still been no case to display what is and isn't allowed.

[@kirkh.2522]

Very interesting. I have Silent Hunter V - Battle of the Atlantic, how could I add this to it? Was it easy?

[@codym7299]

Download the megamind Wolves of steel from subsim using google

[@dartvectorsfsky2708]

Make fb password with something that you can remember Nope Make fb password with enigma Yes

[@wolraadwoltemade3275]

I am getting Potsdam as the code not Hydra but it wont let me change it to Potsdam as Potsdam is only later during the campaign against the communists

[@vladimirturop7145]

OMG !!

[@Macbille]

LA LI LU LE LO

[@NewNationale]

first enigma code isnt even for me, its for indian ocean busta's

[@rock_ok]

wow realism enigma..

[@siggisieg]

Is this in the vanilla game?

[@TaffinExile]

Nope its a mod that can be added either as part of the Wolves of Steel Mega mod or on its own - www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=205112

[@Capitainetim]

no, it's modded

[@my3yorkies]

But you really need to head over to Subsim and follow the instructions to install the Wolves of Steel Megamod. It adds so much to the game and gets rid of so many bugs that the vanilla version has.

[@adrain1999]

And someone broke this??!

[@marioq70]

i-pig Yup. Alan Turing broke it with the help of the first computer ever made.

[@uteriel282]

@@marioq70 would have still been impossible without the code books.

[@Arsenic71]

@@marioq70 It wasn't the first computer ever made. It depends a bit on your definition of a computer, but whatever definition you use, the Bombe was never the first. In fact it's based on a Polish invention from earlier.

[@johanspillerting7739]

yay i got to make the first comend

[@johanspillerting7739]

coment

[@Samuraid77]

Ubisoft themselves want 100$ for the CD non broken version of the game on Amazon. I wanted to get the CD version so I can finally play it because I've got the unbroken steam version and I don't want to go on those sites and download shady mods to fix it. But I'm not giving them 100$ that's ridiculous they keep that steam game broken and want to gouge you for the non broken version.