cyclometer
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.7|Cyclometer, devised in the mid-1930s by Rejewski to catalog the cyclic permutation|cycle structure of Enigma [[permutations. At top are the two rotor banks, one with lid open; below is the rheostat at left, and at right the array of lamps and switches labelled with corresponding letters.]] The cyclometer was a cryptologic device designed, "probably in 1934 or 1935," by Marian Rejewski of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS-4), to catalog the cycle structure of Enigma permutations, thereby facilitating the decryption of German Enigma ciphertext.
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12 sectionsContents
- History
- Example message
- Marian Rejewski
- Characteristic
- Grill method
- Cycle lengths
- Recovering the plugboard
- Building the catalog
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|upright=1.7|Cyclometer, devised in the mid-1930s by Rejewski to catalog the cyclic permutation|cycle structure of Enigma [[permutations. At top are the two rotor banks, one with lid open; below is the rheostat at left, and at right the array of lamps and switches labelled with corresponding letters.]] The cyclometer was a cryptologic device designed, "probably in 1934 or 1935," by Marian Rejewski of the Polish Cipher Bureau's German section (BS-4), to catalog the cycle structure of Enigma permutations, thereby facilitating the decryption of German Enigma ciphertext.
With Rejewski's later cryptologic bomb, it can be viewed as a predecessor to the Bombe that was to help break Enigma ciphers later in the war at Bletchley Park in England.