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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
First class technician in cryptologic... hmm...
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Those crypto boxes had beads that were set for different encryption settings. Moving those beads without breaking a support wire was the job of crypto technicians. They had no idea how those boxes worked or what they did. They were only told what setting to use. These techs would not know what PCM, FSK, nor even NRZ was. That was data incoming and outgoing of those boxes. Techs only knew what cable must connect to what port.
Even that was hard to screw up. Each connector was keyed so that crypto techs would not make a mistake. So corporals did those jobs.