TheCodeBreakers
But their
practice wracks the cryptanalyst with some of the most excruciating
mental torture known to man. And so the rotor system produces an
extremely complex and secure cipher from simple elements in a simple
construction. Who are the four contrivers of this miniature labyrinth, the
four modern Daedaluses of cryptography?
The inventor of the first machine to embody the rotor principle gave
the best efforts of his life to it. Edward Hugh Hebern was born April 23,
1869, in Streator, Illinois, and was raised in the Soldiers' Orphan Home
in Bloomington. When he was 14 he began living and working on a farm
near Odin, where he got a high school education. He headed West at 19,
and, after selling a timber claim in California to a sawmill where he
worked for a time, he turned to carpentry and built and sold houses in
Fresno. Soon after he turned 40, he somehow became interested in
cryptology. Hebern was at this time a blue-eyed, brown-haired man of
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