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A cropped, cleaned up version of figure 4 from Hill's "Message Protector" patent, US patent 1,845,947 of 1929. Sourced from http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/.hill4.html where it was scanned in by the American Cryptogram Association. Securiger 08:24, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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