Cryptology I.4 Cylinder Ciphers (Mechanical Cipher Devices)

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Contents

1. Introduction
2. Idea and History of Cylinder Ciphers
3. Mathematical Description of Cylinder Ciphers [PDF]
4. The Bazeries Cylinder
5. Cryptanalysis of Cylinder Ciphers
6. Breaking the Bazeries Cylinder
7. Consequences from Cryptanalysis
8. Key Generators with Long Periods

Here the (in-) complete PDF version.