The cipher machine is used to encrypt or decrypt messages which need to be kept secret from prying eyes. The machine that you see here is the famed enigma machine which the Germans used during WWII. We were not able to decipher the messages that were encrypted with the enigma but we were fortunate enough to capture one which gave us access to all of their encrypted messages.
I don’t know exactly how these things work but I understand that encrypting a message is not the same thing as encoding it. The encrypting device uses mathematical algorithms to change the character of the mesage so that the only way to decrypt it is to find out what the specific algorithim is and use it to read the message. When a message has been encrypted it is said to be in cybertext. Once it has been decrypted, or in its origional state it is in the plain text mode. http://www.militaryringexpress.com
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