alastair's heart monitor

To give me something to do while I'm waiting for and then recovering from heart surgery, and to keep friends, relatives and colleagues in touch with the state of my head

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Code-Breaking News

WOW - Cryptography fans please note : There appears to be a genuine WW2 German Enigma machine for sale on EBay right now As the Wikipedia entry explains: In the history of cryptography, the Enigma was a portable cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. More precisely, Enigma was a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines — comprising a variety of different models.The Enigma was used commercially from the early 1920s on, and was also adopted by the military and governmental services of a number of nations — most famously by Nazi Germany before and during World War II. The bidding is currently at £12,000 - go on, get in there.

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