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A really great book [1] which details how Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki and Henryk Zygalski exploited a lot of these human errors and managed to keep up with the changes of the Enigma machine.

[1] If you can find it somewhere for a fair price, http://www.amazon.com/Enigma-German-Machine-Foreign-intellig...



If you're in the vicinity of Ft. Meade, you can visit the "National Cryptologic Museum"

http://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic_heritage/museum/index.s...

which is outside the NSA headquarters. They have old Enigma machines, which are quite compact, about typewriter size, as well as a decoder, which is more like a bank of refrigerators. And a lot of other artifacts. It seemed to be mainly a labor of love by retirees and crypto geeks, rather than some officially compiled museum. Rather touching, in a surprising way.




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