M-125 Fialka - Crypto Museum
M-125, codenamed Fialka (Russian: ФИАЛКА), was an electromechanical rotor-based cipher machine, developed shortly after WWII in the former Soviet Union . Introduced in 1956 it became one of the favorite machines of the Warsaw Pact and some allied nations, such as Cuba.
M-125
Basic Fialka cipher machine M-125, codenamed FIALKA (Russian: ФИАЛКА), is an electromechanical rotor-based cipher machine, developed in the mid-1950s — during the Cold War — in the former USSR. It features 10 electrical cipher rotors with 30 contacts at either side, that move in alternate directions.
Fialka Reference Manual 2.0 - cryptomuseum.com
6 January 2021 — To provide a little support in these difficult corona times, we have deciced to make the Fialka Refrence Manual available free of charge, 15 years after its initial release. In the past it was available in printed form for EUR 55, but now it is totally free.
Fialka - Crypto Museum
Like with the German Enigma machine, the Fialka has a reflector (German: Umkehrwalze or UKW) to the left of the cipher wheels. It connects the contact pins together in pairs, and makes the machine reciprocal (i.e. reversible, or symmetrical).
M-125-3M Russia/Soviet Union - cryptomuseum.com
The image shows an original Russian M-125-3 Fialka, as it was rediscovered in a large Russian city in 2017. It had previously been used by the KGB and had been given to a high ranking KGB official on his retirement.
USSR - Crypto Museum
The M-125 (codename: Fialka) was one of the most beautiful and compact electro-mechanical cipher machines produced by the USSR during the Cold War. It was used by most Warsaw Pact countries, including Russia itself.
Fialka Block Diagram - Crypto Museum
On this page we will try to explain the working principle of the two Fialka models, and show how they compare to the well-known German Naval Enigma machine. For this we will use the block diagrams from our manual.
Fialka Wiring - Crypto Museum
The Fialka takes 10 unique cipher rotors. Each rotor is marked with a letter of the Russian alphabet, from A to K as shown below, and a machine should have one of each. The grey numbers printed below the letters are the rotor numbers that we will use in our tables.
M-125-3 Fialka - Crypto Museum
Advanced Fialka cipher machine The M-125-3, codename FIALKA (Russian: ФИАЛКА), was a Russian electromechanical wheel-based cipher machine, developed during the Cold War by the USSR in the mid-1960s as the successor to the M-125. It features 10 coding wheels, with 30 contacts at either side, that move in alternate directions.
M-125 Russian version - cryptomuseum.com
M-125, codenamed Fialka, was the original Russian version of the basic Fialka cipher machine, on which all later country-specific variants are based. It was used in the Soviet Union (USSR) throughout the Cold War from 1956 onwards, and was superceded in 1965 by the M-125-3 .