cipher machine

[′sī·fər mə′shēn]

(communications)

Mechanical or electrical apparatus for enciphering and deciphering.

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Only one code machine made it all the way through the war without being compromised: the US Army's Sigaba (which the navy called the Electric Cipher Machine, or ECM).

Motel of Secrets

Here's just some of them: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963): When Bond has to retrieve a Soviet cipher machine, Q knows exactly the item he needs - a Rolleiflex camera that doubles as a tape recorder.

LOOKS LEICA FAG PACKET! Cunning KGB spy cameras of Cold War go under the hammer

After U-110 was captured in mid-Atlantic along with her Enigma codebooks and cipher machine on May 9, 1941, and after the U-boat sank, Bacon was dispatched from Bletchley Park to collect the booty from the destroyer HMS Bulldog, which had brought back what had been taken to Scapa Flow, the British naval base in the Orkneys.

From travel agent to a secret agent; Today Bletchley Park celebrates the 75th anniversary of the breaking of the Enigma code, thanks to the capture of a German U-boat with her codebooks on board. Author and historian HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORI highlights the part played by a naval intelligence officer from Newcastle

The "typewriter" was, in fact, a German Wehrmacht Enigma I, a World War Two cipher machine, and the collector who bought it put it up for sale at the Bucharest auction house Artmark with a starting price of 9,000 euros ($10,300) (www.artmark.ro).

Bought for ,e1/4100, World War Two Enigma machine sells for 45,000

I am sure most of you have seen the media coverage of the rare cipher machine being sold on eBay for PS9.50.

pastlife; UNDER THE HAMMER

These were then encrypted by the linked Lorenz cipher machine using 12 individual wheels, each with multiple settings, to create the code.

Hitler's secret code machine found in a shed... in Southend; Wartime communications device left among rubbish and on eBay for PS9.50

This July Sotheby's London offered a rare and exceptionally well-preserved example of the World War II cipher machine, The Enigma.

THAT'S A WRAP

There will be a working Enigma cipher machine and activities including making lip balm.

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At the same time, he's conceiving a machine that will somehow defeat the Germans' own cipher machine, the Enigma, which uses code that changes every 24 hours, rendering traditional decrypting methods useless.

Benedict Cumberbatch shines as codebreaker Alan Turing

Navy cipher machine. She briefly left the Navy to be a technical advisor at Hebern Electric Code Company, but returned two years later with knowledge of Hebern's advancements in rotor technology, which, according to an NSA article, would "affect machine cryptography for years to come."

Codebreakers: from the civil war to midway to virtual reality

Leibniz and Cryptography: An Account on the Occasion of the Initial Exhibition of the Reconstruction of Leibniz's Cipher Machine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Library System, 2012.

Rescher, Nicholas. Leibniz and Cryptography: An Account on the Occasion of the Initial Exhibition of the Reconstruction of Leibniz's Cipher Machine

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