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    The (Hagelin) C-52 and CX-52 were cipher machines manufactured by Crypto AG starting 1951/1952. These pin-and-lug type cipher machines were advanced successors...
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    The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication...
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    Angōki Taipu-A (暗号機 タイプA, "Type A Cipher Machine"), codenamed Red by the United States, was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by the Japanese Foreign...
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    The C-35 and C-36 were cipher machines designed by Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin in the 1930s. These were the first of Hagelin's cipher machines to...
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    The Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) (or Combined Cypher Machine) was a common cipher machine system for securing Allied communications during World War...
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    cryptography, a rotor machine is an electro-mechanical stream cipher device used for encrypting and decrypting messages. Rotor machines were the cryptographic...
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    kyūnana-shiki ōbun injiki) or "Type B Cipher Machine", codenamed Purple by the United States, was an encryption machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office...
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  • RC4 (redirect from RC4 Cipher)
    In cryptography, RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4, also known as ARC4 or ARCFOUR, meaning Alleged RC4, see below) is a stream cipher. While it is remarkable for its...
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    cipher machine. The Imperial Japanese Navy used the machine for communications from late 1942 until 1944. JADE was similar to another cipher machine,...
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  • Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic • Burt Kaliski C2Net • C-36 (cipher machine) • C-52 (cipher machine) • Caesar cipher • Camellia (cipher) • CAPICOM • Capstone (cryptography)...
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  • C52 (redirect from C-52)
    C52 or C-52 may refer to: C-52 (cipher machine) ARM General Manuel E. Rincón (C52), an Admirable-class minesweeper of the Mexican Navy Caldwell 52, an elliptical...
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  • cryptography, a block cipher is a deterministic algorithm that operates on fixed-length groups of bits, called blocks. Block ciphers are the elementary building...
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    Boris Hagelin (category Cipher-machine cryptographers)
    patent 3,083,263 U.S. patent 3,485,948 C-36 (cipher machine) M-209 C-52 (cipher machine) Bengt Beckman. Codebreakers: Arne Beurling and the Swedish crypto...
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    M-209 (redirect from C-38 (cipher machine))
    designated CSP-1500 by the United States Navy (C-38 by the manufacturer) is a portable, mechanical cipher machine used by the US military primarily in World...
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    teleprinter"), or Schlüsselfernschreibmaschine (SFM), was a World War II German cipher machine and teleprinter produced by the electrical engineering firm Siemens...
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    The (Hagelin) CD-57 was a portable, mechanical cipher machine manufactured by Crypto AG, first produced in 1957. It was derived from the earlier CD-55...
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    SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II. They were developed by C. Lorenz AG in Berlin. The model...
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  • de:Heinrich Emil Weber Geoff Sullivan and Frode Weierud: The Swiss NEMA Cipher Machine. Cryptologia, 23(4), October 1999, pp310–328. Walter Schmid: Die Chiffriermaschine...
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    transmissions, was given the codename Ultra. The Enigma machines were a family of portable cipher machines with rotor scramblers. Good operating procedures,...
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    Schlüsselgerät 41 (category Broken stream ciphers)
    The Schlüsselgerät 41 ("Cipher Machine 41"), also known as the SG-41 or Hitler mill, was a rotor cipher machine, first produced in 1941 in Nazi Germany...
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    Jefferson disk (redirect from Wheel cipher)
    Jefferson disk, also called the Bazeries cylinder or wheel cypher, is a cipher system commonly attributed to Thomas Jefferson that uses a set of wheels...
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  • Mercury was a British cipher machine used by the Air Ministry from 1950 until at least the early 1960s. Mercury was an online rotor machine descended from Typex...
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    Lorenz cipher. This achieved the decryption of messages in the German teleprinter cipher produced by the Lorenz SZ40/42 in-line cipher machine. Both the...
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    Fialka (category Rotor machines)
    cryptography, Fialka (M-125) is the name of a Cold War-era Soviet cipher machine. A rotor machine, the device uses 10 rotors, each with 30 contacts along with...
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  • In the history of cryptography, a grille cipher was a technique for encrypting a plaintext by writing it onto a sheet of paper through a pierced sheet...
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    XXTEA (category Block ciphers)
    cryptography, Corrected Block TEA (often referred to as XXTEA) is a block cipher designed to correct weaknesses in the original Block TEA. XXTEA is vulnerable...
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    of a set of pinwheels and a rotating cage. Other cipher machines which used pinwheels include the C-52, the CD-57 and the Siemens and Halske T52. Pinwheels...
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    kryptologiczna), which had been designed in Poland at the Biuro Szyfrów (Cipher Bureau) by cryptologist Marian Rejewski, who had been breaking German Enigma...
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    SIGABA (redirect from M-134-C)
    the ECM Mark II was a cipher machine used by the United States for message encryption from World War II until the 1950s. The machine was also known as the...
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  • writer) stream cipher machines at both ends of a telegraph link using the 5-bit International Telegraphy Alphabet No. 2 (ITA2). These machines were subsequently...
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