Reihenschieber

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The Reihenschieber (German: Row Slider) was a hand cipher system used by Germany.^[who?] It was developed during 1957 and used until the early 1960s, although information about the system was released publicly only in 1992. The system was used to encrypt high-grade messages.

The device consists of a frame on which a set of "rods" are clipped: plastic square sticks containing a sequence of digits (0-9) and dots on each face. 10 rods are used, chosen out of a set of 26.

The Reihenschieber generated a stream of pseudo-random digits.

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Michael van der Meulen: Reihenschieber, in Cryptologia, Vol. 20(2), 1996, pp 141–154.

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Topics in cryptography

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