TheCodeBreakers
The current that represents a letter will traverse their
internal maze to encipher that letter. A turn of any rotor will alter that
maze and so change the letter's encipherment. If each rotor turns a
space only when the preceding rotor has completed a revolution, the
number of alphabets that the array of rotors creates will equal the
product of the number of positions that each rotor can take. Five rotors,
each with 26 positions, will thus generate 11,881,376 cipher
alphabets. This hemmorhaging profusion will provide a different alphabet
for each letter in a plaintext longer by far than the complete works of
Shakespeare, War and Peace, the Iliad, the Odyssey, Don Quixote, the
Canterbury Tales, and Paradise Lost all put together.
A period of that length thwarts any practical possibility of a
straightforward solution on the basis of letter frequency. This general
solution would need about 50 letters per cipher alphabet, meaning that