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Machine-assisted encryption, SIGABA, known as ECM Mark II
or M-134 converter also. It was developed for operation by
the US army and navy during WWII and was used until early
fifties. Like many machines of the era it used an electromechanical
system of rotors in order to encipher messages.
Courtesy: National Security Agency.

Portable machine-assisted encryption, ENIGMA, was used commercially
from the early 1920s on, and was adopted by the military and
governmental services all over the world. Like similar machines
it used an electromechanical system of rotors for messages
encryption and decryption. It was made in a variety of different
models whose most famous and well-known is the one used by
the German armed forces. In the enclosed photograph the details
of one of such models, used by the German army, shows the
plugboard, the lamps, the keyboard, and finger-wheels of the
three-rotors emerging from the inner lid.
Courtesy: Antonio Fucci collection.

Close-up fo the plugboard used in the Portable machine-assisted
encryption, ENIGMA.
Courtesy: Antonio Fucci Collection.

Machine-assisted encryption, FIALKA, used by the Russian intelligence
service during the cold war days. FIALKA means violet in Russian
and it consists of an encrypted assisted electromechanical
device comprising 10 rotors labeled with the Cyrillic characters
provided with 30 points contacts instead of the usually 26
as found in similar apparatus operating with the Latin alphabet.
Courtesy: Antonio Fucci Collection

Machine-assisted encryption, NEMA an acronym from German meaning:
NEeu Maschine, or new machine. It is known as T-D (Tasten-Druecker-Maschine)
also, or a keystroke machine. In the reality it is an electromechanical
machine-assisted encryption provided with 10 coding discs
developed during the WWII by captain Arthur Alder for operation
in the Swiss army in order to replace the older ENIGMA model
K.
Basically it consists of 10 discs, of which four are electric
operated and so provided with the classical 26 contacts.
Courtesy: Antonio Fucci Collection

Close-up showing the cypher discs used in the NEMA Machine-assisted
encryption.
Courtesy: Antonio Fucci Collection.

Electromechanical encryption device model AN/GRA-71 made in
the USA circa 1964. It allows a message to be recorded onto
magnetic tape, then subsequently played back to key a transmitter
at a rate of 300 word per minute.
Courtesy: Antonio Fucci Collection.

Exploited view of the encryption device model AN/ GRA-71
showing its parts. In the left corner the coding system that
in reality is a kind of Vigènere table.
Courtesy: Antonio Fucci Collection.

Machine-assisted encryption, model TRC-785 made in France
circa 1970.
Courtesy: Antonio Fuci Collection.
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