cipher machine

collocation in English

meaningsofcipherandmachine

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cipher
noun
uk
/ˈsaɪ.fər/us
/ˈsaɪ.fɚ/
a system of writing that prevents most people from understanding ...
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machine
noun[C]
uk
/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition ofcipherandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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She worked on developing an earlyciphermachine.
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This was a rotorciphermachinethat was available commercially, so the mechanics of enciphering was known, and decrypting messages only required working out how the machine was set up.
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Other than that messages were preceded by a 12-letter indicator, which implied a 12-wheel rotorciphermachine, nothing was known about the mechanism of enciphering.
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He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment.
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In 1926, an inter-departmental committee was formed to consider whether they could be replaced with cipher machines.
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The first stream cipher machines, that were also rotor machines had some of the same problems of weak keys as the more traditional rotor machines.
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Several inventors had similar ideas about the same time, and rotor cipher machines were patented four times in 1919.
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The embassy was then to destroy their cipher machines.
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There were several books available that hint at ways to break cipher machines.
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When current was sent into most other rotor cipher machines, it would travel through the rotors and out the other side to the lamps.
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In the 1920s four men in different countries invented rotor cipher machines to produce a key stream to act instead of a tape.
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