"It's safe to say the troika of encryption devices we have can only be found in a private collection." "I didn't find any museum, not the Imperial War Museum, not the Smithsonian, that had these three machines on display," said Gabe Marshall, from the AFISRA History Office. It joined Nazi Germany's Enigma and the United States' Sigaba, as the only known co-located display of the three encryption/decryption devices. The Fialka, which in English means "violent," was unveiled at a ceremony Sept. ![]() Working in concert with the National Security Agency's National Cryptologic Center Museum at Fort Meade, Md., the AFISRA History Office received on loan an M-125 Fialka, which is a 10-rotor cipher machine developed by the Soviet Union in the late 1950's and used during the Cold War until that country's collapse in 1991. LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) - The Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency now has the trifecta of cryptologic machines on display. ![]()
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