Re: Term of Art
Matt R <[email protected]>
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--- "James P. Anderson" <ande801-7/[email protected]> wrote: > I have never encountered the term "cage" in connection with a > transposition step. Can you tell me what they are describing? The only > "cage" I have ever heard of is the sliding bar drum in Hagelin machines. A GC&CS WWII cryptographic dictionary contains a definition: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/www.AlanTuring.net/turing_archive/archive/b/B06/BO6-014.html http://www.cs.usfca.edu/www.AlanTuring.net/turing_archive/archive/b/B06/BO6-015.html -- Matt Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Matt_Crypto Blog: http://cipher-text.blogspot.com ___________________________________________________________ Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now. http://www.yahoo.co.uk/blackberry