Online Bidders Vie for Wartime Enigma Machine
A WWII Enigma Machine on display at the National Security Agency.
Image source: www.enigmahistory.org
Image source: www.enigmahistory.org
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Bidders in an internet auction are offering over 13,000 euros ($15,600) for a wartime German encoding machine, similar to ones whose messages were cracked by British code breakers in World War Two.More here.
The portable Enigma encryption machine made in 1941 has a keyboard and a series of rotors designed to scramble messages. It is up for sale on internet auction site, eBay.
posted by Fergie @ 3/30/2006 06:55:00 AM
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