Pinwheel (cryptography)
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Pinwheel (cryptography)
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In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits, as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery. Each position had a "pin", "cam" or "lug" which could be either "set" or "unset". As the wheel rotated, each of these pins would in turn affect other parts of the machine, producing a series of "on" or "off" pulses which would repeat after one full rotation of the wheel. If t
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Cryptographic device
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2024-01-09T22:31:13Z
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