{"title":"捷克斯洛伐克第一台密码机","authors":"Eugen Antal, Pavol Zajac","doi":"10.1080/01611194.2021.1998809","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Štolba cipher machine was the first Czechoslovak cipher machine used in the army after the mid-1930s, and later in Slovakia during WW2. It had a unique design based on pneumatic transmission and complex stepping rules. We present basic facts about the Štolba machine from documents found in Czech and Slovak archives. Although the machine description was incomplete (and in some cases not accurate), we have been able to reconstruct (a highly probable) encryption algorithm, and develop a method to reconstruct (message) key from a known PC pair. Part of the machine configuration, however, still remains unknown due to the large space of possible settings and the complexity of the algorithm.","PeriodicalId":55202,"journal":{"name":"Cryptologia","volume":"47 1","pages":"239 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"The first Czechoslovak cipher machine\",\"authors\":\"Eugen Antal, Pavol Zajac\",\"doi\":\"10.1080/01611194.2021.1998809\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"Abstract The Štolba cipher machine was the first Czechoslovak cipher machine used in the army after the mid-1930s, and later in Slovakia during WW2. It had a unique design based on pneumatic transmission and complex stepping rules. We present basic facts about the Štolba machine from documents found in Czech and Slovak archives. Although the machine description was incomplete (and in some cases not accurate), we have been able to reconstruct (a highly probable) encryption algorithm, and develop a method to reconstruct (message) key from a known PC pair. Part of the machine configuration, however, still remains unknown due to the large space of possible settings and the complexity of the algorithm.\",\"PeriodicalId\":55202,\"journal\":{\"name\":\"Cryptologia\",\"volume\":\"47 1\",\"pages\":\"239 - 260\"},\"PeriodicalIF\":0.3000,\"publicationDate\":\"2021-12-28\",\"publicationTypes\":\"Journal Article\",\"fieldsOfStudy\":null,\"isOpenAccess\":false,\"openAccessPdf\":\"\",\"citationCount\":\"2\",\"resultStr\":null,\"platform\":\"Semanticscholar\",\"paperid\":null,\"PeriodicalName\":\"Cryptologia\",\"FirstCategoryId\":\"5\",\"ListUrlMain\":\"https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2021.1998809\",\"RegionNum\":4,\"RegionCategory\":\"工程技术\",\"ArticlePicture\":[],\"TitleCN\":null,\"AbstractTextCN\":null,\"PMCID\":null,\"EPubDate\":\"\",\"PubModel\":\"\",\"JCR\":\"Q4\",\"JCRName\":\"COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS\",\"Score\":null,\"Total\":0}","platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cryptologia","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2021.1998809","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, THEORY & METHODS","Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract The Štolba cipher machine was the first Czechoslovak cipher machine used in the army after the mid-1930s, and later in Slovakia during WW2. It had a unique design based on pneumatic transmission and complex stepping rules. We present basic facts about the Štolba machine from documents found in Czech and Slovak archives. Although the machine description was incomplete (and in some cases not accurate), we have been able to reconstruct (a highly probable) encryption algorithm, and develop a method to reconstruct (message) key from a known PC pair. Part of the machine configuration, however, still remains unknown due to the large space of possible settings and the complexity of the algorithm.
期刊介绍:
Cryptologia is the only scholarly journal in the world dealing with the history, the technology, and the effect of the most important form of intelligence in the world today - communications intelligence. It fosters the study of all aspects of cryptology -- technical as well as historical and cultural. The journal"s articles have broken many new paths in intelligence history. They have told for the first time how a special agency prepared information from codebreaking for President Roosevelt, have described the ciphers of Lewis Carroll, revealed details of Hermann Goering"s wiretapping agency, published memoirs - written for it -- of some World War II American codebreakers, disclosed how American codebreaking affected the structure of the United Nations.