Friday, March 31, 2006

Enigma Machine on Ebay



And Hitler can't bid, though the Navy can. From The Age:

Bidders in an internet auction are offering over 13,000 euro ($A22,174.84) for a wartime German encoding machine, similar to ones whose messages were cracked by British code breakers in World War Two.
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.
"We've had it inspected by an expert who said that due to its good condition it looks very likely to have been in German state ownership at the time," said Alexander Urff of Sales Service, the Munich-based company selling the device.


This is about amazing history and how the allies won the war. Today liberals would call it "evesdropping".