Sentence examples for cipher machine from inspiring English sources

Another Japanese cipher machine, code-named Jade, was essentially the same as the Purple (see figure).

Enigma was the name of the German cipher machine, which encoded messages dispatched to the armed forces.

In autumn 1943, Wylie joined the team that was dedicated to cracking the teleprinter cipher machine, known as "Tunny".

In 1939 the Japanese introduced a new cipher machine, code-named Purple by U.S. cryptanalysts, in which rotors were replaced by telephone stepping switches.

An Enigma cipher machine, which was used to encrypt secret messages during World War II, was also auctioned off, fetching $107,000.

In 1940 the German Lorenz company produced a state-of-the-art 12-wheel cipher machine: the Schlüsselzusatz SZ40, code-named Tunny by the British.

Electronic cipher machines of this general type were widely used, both commercially and by national cryptologic services.

The 1920s were marked by a series of challenges by inventors of cipher machines to national cryptologic services and by one service to another, resulting in a steady improvement of both cryptomachines and techniques for the analysis of machine ciphers.

In a few seconds of operation, trillions of bits of cipher can be processed, compared with the tens of bits per second possible with the first mechanized cipher machines.

Functionally equivalent analogs to the Purple cipher machines were constructed by Friedman and his SIS associates, as seen in the figure, and used throughout the war to decrypt Japanese ciphers.

The communications needs of telegraphy and radio and the maturing of mechanical and electromechanical technology came together in the 1920s to bring about a major advance in cryptodevices: the development of rotor cipher machines.