Card catalog (cryptology)

The card catalog, or "catalog of characteristics," in cryptography, was a system designed by Polish Cipher Bureau mathematician-cryptologist Marian Rejewski, and first completed about 1935 or 1936, to facilitate decrypting German Enigma ciphers.[1]

  1. ^ Marian Rejewski, "The Mathematical Solution of the Enigma Cipher," pp. 284–87.

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