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That's no enigma. enigma had 3 or 4 rotors. This is more like a "tunny", almost. Germany's teleprinter encryption, what you hear about that was decrypted at
by loph 6y ago
That's no enigma. enigma had 3 or 4 rotors. This is more like a "tunny", almost. Germany's teleprinter encryption, what you hear about that was decrypted at Bletchly Park, was a machine that had 12 rotors. This picture looks like a machine with 10 rotors.
TL;DR: this thing probably has significantly stronger encryption than enigma.
- Animats 6y agoThe Crypto Museum in the Netherlands has one.[1] They also have most of the accessories, including the test unit. It's a rotor machine, considerably more advanced than the Enigma. Among other things, it has a "magic" circuit, using very early Soviet transistors. which fixes the problem with reflector-type rotor machines that prevents encoding a character into itself. That creates an exploitable vulnerability. [1] https://cryptomuseum.com/crypto/fialka/psu/tempest.htm https://cryptomuseum.com/crypto/fialka/psu/tempest.htm