{"id":70904,"date":"2022-04-20T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=70904"},"modified":"2022-04-19T08:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:48:29","slug":"the-unbreakable-rockex-canadas-answer-to-the-enigma-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/04\/20\/the-unbreakable-rockex-canadas-answer-to-the-enigma-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unbreakable ROCKEX: Canada\u2019s answer to the Enigma machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pnbh4lt1WNQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Polyus Studios<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 30 Dec 2021<\/p>\n<p>Well before digital encryption and VPNs there was Rockex, Canada&#8217;s unbreakable cipher machine that rivaled the German Enigma in its day. Although completely hidden from the public, Canada has played a noticeable role in the history of espionage. During the Cold War Canadian cipher machines worked alongside those of her allies to keep communications secure and helped to preserve the peace.<\/p>\n<p>Check out cryptomuseum.com for more information about Rockex and to find the source of most of the pictures of the device I used.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-08-47-35-The-Unbreakable-ROCKEX-Canadas-answer-to-the-Enigma-machine-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-08-47-35-The-Unbreakable-ROCKEX-Canadas-answer-to-the-Enigma-machine-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-73121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-08-47-35-The-Unbreakable-ROCKEX-Canadas-answer-to-the-Enigma-machine-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-08-47-35-The-Unbreakable-ROCKEX-Canadas-answer-to-the-Enigma-machine-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-08-47-35-The-Unbreakable-ROCKEX-Canadas-answer-to-the-Enigma-machine-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screenshot-2022-04-20-at-08-47-35-The-Unbreakable-ROCKEX-Canadas-answer-to-the-Enigma-machine-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyus Studios Published 30 Dec 2021 Well before digital encryption and VPNs there was Rockex, Canada&#8217;s unbreakable cipher machine that rivaled the German Enigma in its day. Although completely hidden from the public, Canada has played a noticeable role in the history of espionage. During the Cold War Canadian cipher machines worked alongside those of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7,5,13,230],"tags":[108,157,220],"class_list":["post-70904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-coldwar","tag-encryption","tag-nato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-irC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73122,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70904\/revisions\/73122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}