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Enigmatic instructions

Instruction panel from a WWII German Enigma cipher machine, used to encrypt communications. It took major breakthroughs in mathematics and engineering to break the enccyption on this electro-mechanical device.

 

Taken at the National Cryptologic Museum in Fort Meade, MD.

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Uploaded on June 19, 2005
Taken on June 14, 2005