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RE: [FYI] Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Axel H Horns)
Wed Sep 26 15:03:54 2001
From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:01:40 +0200
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Cc: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
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On 26 Sep 2001, at 13:39, Trei, Peter wrote:
> > The machine was one of only three in the world An antiques dealer
> > has admitted handling a stolen code-breaking Enigma machine, worth
> > £100,000.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> 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 running
> it said there were at least 40 still around.
Perhaps there are only three of the four-wheel-machines left?
"The stolen device, an Abwehr Enigma G312, is a rare four-rotor
version, one of only three still known to be in existence."
Of course, there are a lot of other Enigmas. One I've seen at
Deutsches Museum in Munich, another in a museum in Berlin.
Axel H Horns
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