katkryptolog

The CodeStar module was designed for encryption and decryption of information for personal computers. The board was inserted into a free computer slot and occupied one 8-bit bus slot of a PC, XT, AT class computer. The module was supplied with a floppy disk with files in the Turbo C++ language under the MS-DOS OS . The original CRY 8 customer circuit, based on reliable technology had the entire information encryption and decryption algorithm hidden. This algorithm ( Feistel -type algorithm) was developed and manufactured in Switzerland for reliability on a special order basis, together with a semi-custom integrated circuit using CMOS VLSI technology. The order was placed by the Institute of Computer Systems of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (today‘s Institute of Informatics SAV ). The module was used to encrypt and decrypt the user's information or the user's entire file with an original and constantly changing key, it served to protect the user's data from unauthor...

 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...

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...

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

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.

 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:)

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)