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RE: [FYI] Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Wed Sep 26 13:51:18 2001
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From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
"'Axel H Horns'" <horns@ipjur.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:39:57 -0400
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> Axel H Horns[SMTP:horns@ipjur.com]
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> Wednesday, 26 September, 2001, 15:25 GMT 16:25 UK =20
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> Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge=20
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> The machine was one of only three in the world An antiques dealer has =
> admitted handling a stolen code-breaking Enigma machine, worth=20
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Only 3 in the world? I don't think so. At the last RSA conference, the
NSA had a historical 'museum', including an enigma. The woman=20
running it said there were at least 40 still around.=20
I know one firm which has two of them, along with various other
historical crypto HW.
They're rare, but not *that* rare. The toughest part in keeping
them going is getting the odd little lightbulbs which indicate the
output.
Peter
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