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Re: [FYI] Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Wed Sep 26 15:14:25 2001
Message-Id: <200109261801.f8QI15E24553@thunk.east.sun.com>
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@east.sun.com>
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@rsasecurity.com>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com,
"'Axel H Horns'" <horns@ipjur.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:39:57 EDT."
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Reply-To: sommerfeld@east.sun.com
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:01:05 -0400
> 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.
>
> I know one firm which has two of them, along with various other
> historical crypto HW.
The BBC article stated that it was a particular model of 4-rotor
enigma, of which there are only three known.
BTW, I spotted another 4-rotor Enigma as part of a museum display on
board the HMS Belfast, a WWII-era cruiser now permanently moored in
the Thames in London..
- Bill
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