TheCodeBreakers
discovery. No castle in the air was ever more stupendous and gorgeous
than mine. . . . Wilde and I were now all agog for an audience of the
Prime Minister, to put him in possession of the good fortune which had
befallen his government, and ourselves in the way of wealth and
promotion."
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Drawing of a cipher machine invented around 1888 by the French cryptologist Marquis
Gaetan H. L. de Viaris. Its chief merit is that it printed its output on a strip of paper.
They did manage to describe the cipher to a government secretary, and
many years later, Jerdan, visiting a high Foreign Office official, saw a
cipher being used based on his principle. He naturally thought that it
was his, but it may have been invented independently by someone else.
Nearly every inventor of a cipher system has been convinced of the
unsolvability of his brainchild. (The tendency to claim this in patents
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