Tunny cipher

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The Tunny cipher was a high-level German teleprinter encryption system used during World War II for strategic communications, whose interception and decryption at Bletchley Park significantly aided Allied codebreaking efforts.

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Tunny cipher canonical 2
Fish cipher 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf German teleprinter cipher
World War II cryptographic system
cipher
alphabet Baudot code
alsoKnownAs Fish cipher
linked to: Tunny cipher

Tunny
analyzedBy Bill Tutte
Max Newman
Ralph Tester
basedOn Lorenz SZ40
linked to: Lorenz SZ

Lorenz SZ42
linked to: Lorenz SZ
breakingMethod crib-based attacks
mathematical analysis
statistical analysis
brokenAt Bletchley Park
brokenBy Bill Tutte
brokenCountry United Kingdom
cipherType additive stream cipher
stream cipher
decryptedBy Bletchley Park
Government Code and Cypher School
developedBy German military
discoveredBy British signals intelligence
distinctFrom Enigma cipher
linked to: Enigma machine
encryptionDevice Lorenz SZ40
linked to: Lorenz SZ

Lorenz SZ42
linked to: Lorenz SZ
importance contributed to Allied strategic decision-making
provided intelligence on German High Command communications
significant factor in Allied codebreaking success
interceptedBy Bletchley Park
medium landline teleprinter circuits
radio
operatedOn 5-bit teleprinter code
relatedTo Enigma machine
Lorenz cipher
securityLevel high-level
supportedByMachine Colossus computer
linked to: Colossus computers

Heath Robinson
linked to: Rube Goldberg
targetOf Allied signals intelligence operations
timePeriod 1942–1945
early 1940s
usedBy German High Command
Nazi Germany
usedByUnit German Army High Command
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
usedFor high-level strategic communications
teleprinter communications
usedInConflict World War II

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Tunny cipher alsoKnownAs Fish cipher
linked to: Tunny cipher
Heath Robinson machine usedAgainst Tunny cipher