JADE was the codename given by US codebreakers to a Japanese World War II cipher machine. The Imperial Japanese Navy used the machine for communications...
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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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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 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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(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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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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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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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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Siemens and Halske T52 (redirect from Siemens Cipher Machine)
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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C-36 were cipher machines designed by Swedish cryptographer Boris Hagelin in the 1930s. These were the first of Hagelin's cipher machines to feature...
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The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II. They were developed by C. Lorenz...
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Look up Jade, jade, or JADES in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jade is an ornamental stone. (The) Jade(s), JADE(S), may also refer to: Jade (given name)...
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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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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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Japanese naval codes (redirect from Japanese naval cipher)
similarly constructed Blue Book code. A cipher machine developed for Japanese naval attaché ciphers, similar to JADE. It was not used extensively, but Vice...
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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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Typex (category Rotor machines)
of cryptography, Typex (alternatively, Type X or TypeX) machines were British cipher machines used from 1937. It was an adaptation of the commercial German...
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SIGABA (category Rotor machines)
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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Lacida (category Cipher Bureau (Poland))
also called LCD, was a Polish rotor cipher machine. It was designed and produced before World War II by Poland's Cipher Bureau for prospective wartime use...
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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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KL-7 (category Rotor machines)
cryptologic organisation as a standard machine for all parts of the armed forces, and the first cipher machine to use electronics (vacuum tubes), apart...
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M-94 (category Classical ciphers)
later. In an extension of the same general principle, the M-138-A strip cipher machine, used by the US Army, Navy (as CSP-845), Coast Guard and State Department...
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Fish (cryptography) (redirect from Fish ciphers)
GC&CS Bletchley Park codename for any of several German teleprinter stream ciphers used during World War II. Enciphered teleprinter traffic was used between...
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A cipher disk is an enciphering and deciphering tool developed in 1470 by the Italian architect and author Leon Battista Alberti. He constructed a device...
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substitution into a polyalphabetic one similar to the well known Vigenère cipher, with the exception that it required no manual lookup of the keys or cyphertext...
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Scytale (category Classical ciphers)
cylinder", also σκύταλον skútalon) is a tool used to perform a transposition cipher, consisting of a cylinder with a strip of parchment wound around it on which...
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• IPsec • Iraqi block cipher • ISAAC (cipher) • ISO 19092-2 • ISO/IEC 9797 • Ivan Damgård Jacques Stern • JADE (cypher machine) • James Gillogly • James...
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M-209 (redirect from C-38 (cipher machine))
United States Navy (C-38 by the manufacturer) is a portable, mechanical cipher machine used by the US military primarily in World War II, though it remained...
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of the Kryha Cipher Machine". Cryptologia. 35 (114–155): 114–155. doi:10.1080/01611194.2011.558978. Alexander von Kryha, "Coding machine", U.S. patent...
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