OMI cryptograph

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The OMI cryptograph was a seven-rotor machine produced by Italian firm Ottico Meccanica Italiana.
The OMI cryptograph was a seven-rotor machine produced by Italian firm Ottico Meccanica Italiana.

The OMI cryptograph was a rotor cipher machine produced and sold by Italian firm Ottico Meccanica Italiana (OMI) in Rome.

The machine had seven rotors, including a reflecting rotor. The rotors stepped regularly. Each rotor could be assembled from two sections with different wiring: one section consisted a "frame" containing ratchet notches, as well as some wiring, while the other section consisted of a "slug" with a separate wiring. The slug section fitted into the frame section, and different slugs and frames could be interchanged with each other. As a consequence, there were a large number of permutations for the rotor selection.

The machine was offered for sale during the 1960s[1].

  • Cipher A. Deavours and Louis Kruh, "Machine Cryptography and Modern Cryptanalysis", Artech House, 1985, pp. 146–147
  • F. L. Bauer, Decrypted Secrets, 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-540-66871-3, pp. 112,136.
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