CryptoMuseum
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Crypto Museum is all about historical cipher machines, spy radio sets, covert equipment, radio direction finders, intercept, spy cameras and much, much more.
Eindhoven
Joined March 2011
RT @VirtualColossus: I've been learning about the SG-41, a mechanical pin-wheel cipher machine, developed as a replacement candidate for Enā¦
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Check out this power supply unit of 1965. It was used with the Fialka cipher machine (M-125) and proves that the Russians were well aware of TEMPEST and side-channel attacks.
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New discovery: the 'Condenser PBJ' rotor-based cipher machine was developed between 1922 and 1924 and was used until 1934 by the Czechoslovak Army. Full reconstruction now online in Cryptologia (free access)
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Introducing Enigma D: manufactured in 1926, this the father of all later Enigma cipher machines, including commercial Enigma K and military Enigma I
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RT @electrospaces: Former #Wirecard-CEO Jan Marsalek and a former officer of the Austrian security service gave the Russian #FSB a laptopā¦
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Last Friday, Crypto Museum received a most generous gift in the form of a KL-7 cipher machine, complete with all 12 rotors. It was donated by OVCISKLu -- the Society of Former Signals and CIS Officers of the Royal Dutch Air Force. MANY Thanks!
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RT @VirtualColossus: Lots of work done this week on #VirtualM209, the casing is now almost completed. The ghosted part is a CT scan of a reā¦
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@VirtualColossus @dmdmuc @mgoeggerle @tnmoc @bletchleypark We are very excited about this. Canāt wait to see it finished. Keep up the good work.
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30 years ago, CIA and FBI used this type of equipment for wireless overhearing and recording of conversations and evidence gathering. Now fully functional again.
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Check out this passive covert listening device that was developed around 1963 and was used by MI6 to spy on German industrials: If anyone has further information about these devices, please let us know.
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Don't forget: tomorrow is the first opening day of our exhibition Secret Messages 4: We have arranged for free parking! And the HX-63 -- the ultimate rotor machine -- is also on display.
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Meet the ultimate rotor-based cipher machine, developed between 1952 and 1963 by Boris Hagelin:
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Last week, researchers of the Dutch security firm Midnight Blue disclosed that they had found vulnerabilities in the TETRA encryption algorithms. Crypto Museum now publishes the source code of the algorithms, along with a paper by the researchers:
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Who can help us to identify this spy radio set. It is believed to be from 1962 and was captured in China more than 30 years ago.
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In 2018, this sophisticated bug was found inside a CryptoPhone used by WikiLeaks in London, around the time of the Snowden Revelations. In this article we analyse the bug:
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This secure telephone set was used between 1988 and 2009 by at least four US Presidents:
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In the mid-1950s the French intelligence service in Berlin (DR/SR) gave this transmitter to its agents operating inside East-Germany (DDR). The miniature transmitter used a domestic receiver as its power supply:
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