BID 770

The basic TOPIC equipment without the power supply on display at Bletchley Park.

The BID 770 was a British-built electronic cryptography device, codenamed TOPIC. It was also used by Canada's foreign service under the codename TENEC. TOPIC was brought into service in 1977, and became obsolete in 1995.

TOPIC was used to protect telegraph traffic, and replaced the earlier mechanical system called ROCKEX. It could be operated in both on- and off-line modes. Weighing 65 lb, the machine used diode-transistor logic instead of single transistors.

External links

Jerry Proc's page on the BID 770

Cipher machines

Rotor machines	CCM Enigma M-125 Fialka Hebern HX-63 KL-7 Lacida M-325 Mercury NEMA OMI Portex RED SIGABA SIGCUM Singlet Typex

Mechanical	Bazeries cylinder C-36 C-52 CD-57 Cipher disk HC-9 Kryha Jefferson disk M-94 M-209 Reihenschieber Scytale

Teleprinter	5-UCO BID 770 DUDEK KW-26 KW-37 Lorenz SZ 40/42 Siemens and Halske T52

Secure voice	BID 150 FASCINATOR KY-3 KY-57 KY-58 KY-68 NESTOR OMNI SCIP Sectéra Secure Module SIGSALY STE STU-II STU-III VINSON

Other	JADE KG-84 KL-43 KL-51 Noreen PURPLE GREEN（Japanese：-{グリーン暗号}-） Pinwheel Rockex

Cryptography

History of cryptography Cryptanalysis Outline of cryptography

Symmetric-key algorithm Block cipher Stream cipher Public-key cryptography Cryptographic hash function Message authentication code Random numbers Steganography

Portal

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, April 14, 2012. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.