The 1944 Bletchley Park Cryptographic Dictionary

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ROUTING :

(especially). Pattern of sequence in which a text is written into or taken out of the cage in transposition.

ROUTINE, n :

A routine message.

ROW :

(especially). Series of 200 call-signs in Bird Book, constituting a Single row when the book is regarded as a single table having 200 rows and 200 columns.

R.R. :

Short for Registration Room,

R.S. R/S :

Short for Ringstellung.

R.T. R/T :

Abbreviation of Radiotelephony.

RUN, n :

1. A continuous stretch, especially of a subtractor or key.


2. (in Enigma). A consecutive test of all settings or of all settings and all or all likely wheel-orders, made by a bombe for a particular menu or set of menus.

RUN, v :

To test (a menu or set of menus) on the bombe in all possible or all likely settings and wheel-orders.

RUNNING KEY :

(in polyalphabetic ciphers). A non-periodic alphabetic key obtained from a book or any continuous passage of writing.

SALTATION :

Process of selecting units from a natural series so as to leave, usually irregular, gaps in the series.

SANDWICH, n :

One or more repeated characters enclosing one or more other characters.

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