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A fact from Diplomatic bag appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 April 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a diplomatic bag is a term of art in both international relations and cryptography?

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Dead link[edit]

Updated dead link. --Ddrager 18:43, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! — Matt Crypto 19:13, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Poor[edit]

badly written 160.39.213.109 17:07, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's a wiki. You can improve it. — Matt Crypto 17:18, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Can we get a pic?[edit]

please?76.105.211.236 (talk) 03:42, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Of what? It doesn't have to be an actual bag. It can be a shipping container or anything to hold stuff. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:44, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

State offers up a number of potentially public domain pics, seen here: http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=+site:www.state.gov+diplomatic+pouch

There's a British one here, but it's iffy in terms of fair use: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/672786.stm

Hope that helps, but to avoid COI issues that's about all I'm going to do. MrZaius^talk 10:43, 6 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Violations" => "Unusual shipments"[edit]

It wasn't entirely clear to me whether shipping, say, cigars or guns in a diplomatic container itself violates the Vienna Convention. There's a big old discussion of limiting the contents of diplomatic bags at The Straight Dope. Right now I've retitled the section "Unusual shipments," but if anyone has a better name (clearly these things violate the spirit of the pouch, whether every single incident is a violation of the treaty or not) or better information do correct.24.6.1.56 (talk) 23:12, 28 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Enigma[edit]

The following sentences have been in the article from its creation in 2004 and marked "citation needed" for ten years, since early 2008.[1][2]

An illustration is the strenuous protest made by German diplomats in Poland in the late 1920s when a cypher machine being shipped to the German Embassy in Warsaw – a commercial version of the famous Enigma machine – was mistakenly not marked as protected baggage and was opened, under protest, by Polish Customs. It was released to them, supposedly without many apologies (and with still more protest), but had perhaps been subjected to inspection by Polish cryptography personnel.

Many unsourced repetitions or paraphrases can now be found online but their use as references here would risk being WP:CIRCULAR. Fortunately the article will be fine without this particular story as an example. I'll remove it. I'll also mark the previous text in the Cryptography section as needing citation; arguably, the 2008 tag applied to those sentences too, but that may not have been obvious. 92.19.28.93 (talk) 14:08, 22 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]