The Joy of Enigma

Earliest known edition of The Joy of Enigma.

The Joy of Enigma: A Gourmet Guide to Loving Your Polyalphabetic Machine Encryption is a 1972 illustrated manual of erotic enigma machine encryption and decryption activities.

Commentary

What is your safe word

Context: "What is your 'safe' word?"

I could tell you.

But it's encrypted using a polyalphabetic cipher, and I change the key daily.

I will say this: the Enigma machine is the greatest sex toy ever invented.

National Security Autoasphyxiation Euphoria

Every day, your Safe Word of the Day™ might be your CIA activation phrase.

Will this be the day you experience National Security Autoasphyxiation Euphoria?

"Could teach the Honored Matres a thing or 2 about programming!"

—New Minneapolis Star-Tribune

In the News

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  The One-Time Pad and How to Use It is a 1966 comedy-cryptography film about a shy bachelor (Brian Bedford) asks his best friend (James Tarentino) to keep him company during his first date in his apartment with the girl he met at a cryptography conference and fell in love with.

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  Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance is a self-discovery travel and body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Robert Pirsig.

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  Turing Completeness Adventure Stories— "Chilling and informative tales of Turing Machines — rule sets which are able to recognize or decide other data-manipulation rule sets."

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• The One-Time Pad and How to Use It
• Zen and the Art of Typewriter Maintenance

External links

• Enigma machine @ Wikipedia
• How Did the Enigma Machine work? @ YouTube

• The Joy of Sex @ Wikipedia
• The Joy of Sex (1984) @ YouTube

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