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As long time readers of my blog might remember, I’ve been fascinated by old cryptographic machines. I spent quite a bit of time tinkering around with them back when I was working on Simon Singh’s cipher challenge in his book. In particular, I spent a considerable amount of time reading up on the German Enigma [...]

A long time ago, I wrote some code to send simple morse messages by toggling a pin of an Arduino. It could either blink an LED, or if you wired a bias resistor and transistor to it, you could use it to (say) act like a key for the FT-817. But then I lost the [...]