Difficult:
It seems like the enigma machine itself would be somewhat secure. I do question needing a codebook to set the rotors everyday because it seems that if the codebook was captured it would be very easy to decrypt messages and also send false messages. I don't think I fully understood the basics of how they were able to crack the enigma machine. That might just be because my permutation knowledge is a bit rusty.
Reflective:
I think that creating a machine to encrypt and decrypt messages is a very smart idea especially in war. This way the knowledge of even how the cipher worked would be more hidden because the operators may not even know how the machine works and thus if they are captured they can break the machine and no one knows how to decrypt the messages.
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