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According to https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/v0sw2r/enigma_ring_settings_question/

While the rotor is in the machine, the ring+notch+rotor all rotate in sync. While the rotor is pulled out, the ring+notch can be detached and rotated to a different offset compared to some canonical orientation of the inside rotor wiring.

This makes sense.

The online Engima encoder at https://www.101computing.net/enigma-encoder/ Caesar-shifts the rotor configuration based on the ring settings, but does not to shift the notch. Not Caesar-shifting the notch does not appear to be right (please see the Python code at the bottom of the online encoder page). Would someone explain whether I understand this incorrectly.

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