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Slovak cryptodevice - a fax with encoder - model HC-4400-09

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 A fax with an encoder , model HC-4400-09 from the Swiss Company Crypto AG , was placed at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic (SR) and abroad at the representative offices of the Slovak Republic. It was used to encrypt and transfer copies of documents using the regular telephone network. The electronic device was compatible with any fax machine or personal computer. It was in the service as a fax server, did not have any restrictions on standard devices, with an error correction mode, automatic protocol adaptation, a security module resistant to unauthorised manipulation, automatic or manual key selection, for protection against forgery, for generating and encrypting keys, a program for managing keys, protected database, speed from 2400 to 14400 b/s. Installation and  operation of the fax machine was simple. Cryptodevice - a fax with encoder - model HC-4400-09  The device was manufactured in the 1990s by the Swiss company Crypto AG , which specialised in...

Spanish Embassy's cipher machine break by Czechoslovakian Secret Service and KGB

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How the Czechoslovak secret service ŠtB breaks the encryption machine Gretag TC 803 at the Spanish embassy in Prague: https://www.info.cz/zpravodajstvi/cesko/akce-sumperk?odemknout=YAYLEWR8KH Detailed description of the encryption machine  Gretag TC 803 : https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/gretag/803/index.htm Picture of the cipher machine's daily key block   "...Another break-in at the embassy took place on June 27, 1980. In this case, the State Security encountered a problem that it could not deal with. The Spanish started using the Gretag TC 803 encryption machine. ... Daily slips of paper with an encryption key were inserted into it. These were stored in a safe and bound with bookbinding cloth on three sides and in the middle. The canvas thus formed a kind of letter E with four arms. Between the canvas arms were perforated slips of metal foil that were inserted into the encryption machine. One part was designated for each day. Used and unused keys were shredded the...

Military Ciphers according to cpt. Frybort

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Article about military ciphers by cpt. Bedřich Frýbort, in "Vojenský svět", 1937, 11 and 12, vol. V. I. part, pp. 438-9, II.part: pp. 479-80, Title of the article in czech: "Šifrování": etc... Content of the article is probably about basic cipher systems used in military exercises in Czechoslovakia. Member of the group C of cipher solutionists at Czechoslovak HQ of the Ministry of Defence headed by lieutenant colonel  Josef RŮŽEK , in czech:"člen šifrové skupiny C HV MNO", according to Porubský, Š.: Application and Misapplication  of the Czechoslovak STP cipher during WWII (report on an unpublished manuscript) . In: Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications , vol. 70, no. 3, p.47

Miracle over miracles

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Title of the article: " Miracle over Miracles ", which was published on 15.04.1939, writes about kryptograph by certain danish inventor named Helgermhansen: Google translate of the article: Miracle over miracles ... Copenhagen, Friday. (Stefani.) A young Danish named Helgermhansen invented a machine called a cryptograph, with which one can find the key to each secret cipher. The Danish Ministry of War is studying the machine. The sale of a patent abroad was prohibited.

Časový tunel do minulosti - kryptografia a inkvizícia

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 Program Čs. rozhlasu v Bratislave na 5.12.1932: Obidve témy, ktoré ma obzvlášť zaujímajú: kryptografie, prednáška prof. Evžena Římana , ktorý napísal prvú brožúrku na toto téma: a ďalej inkvizičné procesy s kacírmi v stredoveku, prednáška univ. prof. dr. Vratislava Buška , právnika, znalca cirkevného práva a bývalého rektora Univerzity Komenského v Bratislave( v rokoch  1936–1937 ) . Program: Uvedené: Nech sa vám pekne počúva:)

Challenge Grille cipher / Flamm's Kryptograph

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Flamm's Kryptograph , patented in USA, 1875. A newspaper article published in the past covers an encrypted message written by the anonymous reader with pseudonym Tekew: NVRDIEMHNEAT IRVOAEINFYIU BRNTTTEHSEUA FHSEREPEFDRF OORRMOSVTOHO EIDFNOTSHTUH RETRTEEEAMLE EUGGSTSRIELA TARIEGTEAMRY OBSFOUCTTOHT EMTRPHCOLIIE XPSIHRTEIEYN In Slovak: Odkaz na šifrovanie pomocou Flammovho Kryptografu v slovenčine, Obzor, 1875, s.217-8:   Rozlúštenie tejto šifrovanej správy je nasledovné, vďaka čitateľovi s pseudonymom Narga na blogu Klausa Schmeha:   I HAVE FURTHER PROVED THE UTILITY OF THIS INVENTION IN THE FORM OF THE TELEGRAM BUT TO RENDER IT SAFE FOR SHORT MESSAGES OTHER CIPHER MAY BE USED TO INSURE A GREATER COMPLEXITY Later on, i found that  the Plaintext of the turning grille cipher challenge was presented in the next answer from reader with initials H. E. A. to Tekew's describing: (To be continued)

Update

 I added five new links to the article about cs ciphers . I have added Google Translation of transcription of the article about cipher machine Panmilion .