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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. To decrypt the message, those same rotors and settings, along with those of the modificator, must be re-created in the receiver's identical machine. A 12-volt DC linear power supply runs the motor and printer and charges the battery.