At 07:03 PM 11/11/99 +0100, Chr. Schulzki-Haddouti wrote:
>I am looking for help to identify following three crypto devices, which were
>presumably used by NATO and Eastern Countries. You can have a look here:
>http://members.aol.com/infowelt/kdevice.htm
>
>At the moment I am preparing an article for the German computer magazine c't
>(www.heise.de/ct/) on hardware crypto in the 20th century. ....
Wow, that *is* hardware crypto!
Those devices were practical right up until people started using automatic
devices to crack codes (i.e. WW II).
Terrific pictures. First item is a 'code wheel,' though I'd only seen them
with 2 or 3 alphabets before that one. The second item looks like a strip
cipher. The third looks like some complicated variant of a Jefferson Wheel
(pardon my USA & U.Va. bred prejudices).
Rick.
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"Internet Cryptography" at http://www.visi.com/crypto/
