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The Scandalous History of the Last Rotor Cipher Machine

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My friend gave me an internal history of the company written by its founder, Boris Hagelin. Inside the disk are wires connecting a contact on one side of the disk to a different one on the other side. The disk is connected electrically to a typewriter-like keyboard. For every rotor the pattern of these connections is unique.