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Make your own wallet-sized Enigma(tm)-like Machine

Step 2Getting Started

Getting Started
Now that we've rambled on about how a paper version of a broken cipher system can actually be usefully secure, lets get on to how you can build your own.  Alternatively, you didn't believe a word of what I said, but want one anyway, that's okay too.

You will need:

1x thumb tack
1x small split pin
1x 50mm paper clip (that 2" if you are in the USA and still using UK measurements)
1x Amazing Wallet Size Enigma(tm)-Like Machine PDF file to print
1x A0 high-speed colour plotter connected to a CIA main-frame you have hacked, or failing that, your desktop computer and printer.
1x laminating machine to make the rotors more resilient (optional)

Since we are operating on a need-to-know basis, all I can provie you with is the PDF file.

Actually, because I am so nice, I have provided you with two PDF files, so that you can make an amazing double-sided enigma-like machine.  This means you will have two different wirings to choose from, doubling your key space, for the small cost of making the thing too fat to easily fit in your wallet! 
(It seemed like a good idea at the time.)

You will also notice that the PDF files have two pages.  The first page has enough wallet-sized rotors to make four whole machines, enough for you and your geeky friends.  The second page has a double size set of rotors, so that you can make a much easier to read "desk version" if you like.
pgs_wiring_sidea.pdf(595x842) 90 KB
pgs_wiring_sideb.pdf(595x842) 90 KB
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