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Java, zeroize and WW II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Wed Sep 13 23:27:31 2000
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From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
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I was searching to see if anyone had done a Zeroize interface for
Java and found a very interesting page
http://www.maritime.org/ecm2.htm on the US military's primary cipher
machine from World War II, the ECM Mark II, aka CSP-989 aka SIGABA.
(It turns out the term "zeroize" goes back to the electromechanical
era and they have a Java version of the ECM-II.)
This page is unusual for the depth of supporting material it
includes, wheel coding lists for the M-94 "Jefferson Wheel" cipher,
detailed emergency procedures to use when your ECM-II has been
compromised, explanations of NSA nomenclature system for
cryptographic equipment, etc.
Worth a visit.
Arnold Reinhold
