Re: Another Site with FIALKA Pictures

John Savard wrote:
> On 8 Dec 2005 01:17:24 -0800, spam@hut-six.co.uk wrote, in part:
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>>John Savard wrote:
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>>>gives pictures of a FIALKA with the German/Russian keyboard without a
>>>missing key...
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>>Another Fialka site:
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>>http://www.xat.nl/fialka/
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> The extended manual for the FIALKA on that site is very interesting, and
> answers all my questions!
>
> It turns out that the symbol with three transistors in a circle on the
> original site from which I heard about the FIALKA did represent what I
> thought it might - called the "Magic" circuit, it permutes three signals
> around in a circle.
3 Point curcuit
> And one other wire is used to cause a letter to be enciphered as itself.
its correct
> Thus, the machine is not perfectly reciprocal, and each letter may
> become all thirty other possibilities - so the weaknesses of an
> Enigma-like design are eliminated, while still retaining the advantage
> of having the current flow through the rotors twice.
better is!
> John Savard
> http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
> http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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Received on Sun Dec 11 14:26:32 2005