Re: Term of Art

Matt R <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.cryptography.bletchley-park
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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

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