Bob Lord's Home Page

About This Site

Welcome to my online crypto museum! Here you will find some information about a number of old encryption items, including manuals, posters, and machines (including an Enigma machine). I hope you enjoy your visit. Please don't hesitate to contact me by clicking the "contact" link on the navigation bar to the left. I would enjoy hearing from you.

I try to put as many original source materials online as I can. I have posted some manuals here, some of my favorite propaganda, magazine articles, and even a training video for the M-209 encryption machine.

As I tried to learn more about these crypto machines on the web, I found that there were very few hi-resolution images for me to study. Part of my goal for this site is to provide such images. As a result, this site can be very bandwidth heavy.

Also, if you have ideas for the site, or if you'd like me to post photographs of a specific item, please feel free to contact me.

Note about linking to my site: I would be honored to have you link to my site, but please be aware that I continue to make changes to the structure of the site. The image or page you see here today may not be there tomorrow. I would encourage you to link to my top level page (http://www.ilord.com/) to be safe.

Updates

May 20, 2006:

Added a new license to the footer of each page. I am now licensing all my content under a Creative Commons license. I'm currently using the "Attribution/Non Commercial/ShareAlike" version of the license. The summary is that you can use any of my copyrighted material as long as you give credit to me, are not using my works to make money, and agree to use this license in derivative works. This should make it easier for people who want to use my photos or other content on this site. Of course if this doesn't work for you, please contact me. Click on the Creative Commons logo at the bottom of the page to to get the full legal description. Let the mashups begin!
I added the W3C syntax checker to the bottom of each page. Click on it to see if I really made the page XHTML 1.0 compliant. XHTML is the successor to HTML. If you create web pages, and if you care about making your pages readable by the widest number of browsers, devices, search engines, etc. you should learn about XHTML. If I made a mistake, please let me know.

May 12, 2006: I added a new page with information about the M-325(T) training manual I just acquired. I included both an HTML transcript of the manual, as well as complete scans of the pages. The pictures are especially interesting.

January 22, 2006: There are new pictures and text on the Fialka page. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or spot any errors. I also uploaded a few new pictures of the HC-9.

Wanted

If you have any of the items below for sale, please contact me.

An original Enigma external rotor case. Here are some examples:
- Seven rotor storage box: closed, and open
- Two rotor storage box open, closed front, closed back
Original Enigma light bulbs. They are shorter than normal light bulbs. See my Enigma lamps page for more information.
Cryptologia Volume 14, Number 2, April, 1990 which has a reference to the HC-9 cipher machine.
Military Cryptanalytics by Friedman & Callimahos. This is a multi-volume set published for internal training at the NSA in the mid-1960s.
FM 11-35: Signal Corps Field Manual. Signal Corps Intelligence, dated September 2, 1942.
FM 34-40-2 Basic Cryptanalysis: This field manual is intended as a training text in basic cryptanalytics and as a reference for military cryptanalysts.

Browser Support

I make an effort to make sure these pages work on Microsoft's IE browser and Apple's Safari browser. Having said that my primary browser is Mozilla's Firefox on Windows, my Macintosh, and my Red Hat Linux machine. Firefox is fast, small, feature rich, and perhaps most importantly, it's more secure than IE.

See for yourself what you've been missing by clicking on this link. Be sure to check out the features like tabbed browsing, searching within a web page, and pop-up blocking. Enjoy!

This site is XHTML 1.0 compliant.