Edward H. Hebern
American cryptologist
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development of rotor cipher machines
- In cryptology: Developments during World Wars I and II
…older mechanical cipher disks, American Edward H. Hebern recognized in about 1917 (and made the first patent claim) that by hardwiring a monoalphabetic substitution in the connections from contacts on one side of an electrical disk (rotor) to contacts on the other side and then cascading a collection of such…
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