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The(Hagelin) CD-57 was a portable, mechanical cipher machine manufactured byCrypto AG, first produced in 1957.[1] It was derived from the earlierCD-55, and was designed to be compatible with the largerC-52 machines. Compact, the CD-57 measured merely 5 1/8in × 3 1/8in × 1 1/2in (13 × 8 × 3.8 cm) and weighed 1.5 pounds (680 gr). The CD-57 used six wheels.
A variant is theCD-57(RT), a similar device using aone-time pad system rather than rotating wheels. TheSTG-61 was a licensed copy of the CD-57 by Hell.[2]
Sullivan (2002) shows how the CD-57 can be attacked using ahill climbing search technique.