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Re: [FYI] Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Renegade)
Sun Sep 30 01:41:20 2001
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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 22:37:32 -0500
To: Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de>
From: Renegade <renegade@texoma.net>
Cc: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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A> >> The machine was one of only three in the world An antiques dealer has
> > >> admitted handling a stolen code-breaking Enigma machine, worth
> > >> =A3100,000.
>
> > The machine in question is an Abwehr Enigma, a variant of the basic
> > design. (There were a fair number of variants, in fact.)
>
>Are you sure about this?
The rarest of all though, are the bombes. There is only one left. The rest=
=20
are at the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay. Maybe Woods Hole will go pull them=
=20
up someday.
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