Enigma I: '€100 typewriter' found to be German code machine

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Enigma I: '€100 typewriter' found to be German code machine

A 100 euros typewriter has sold for 45,000 euros (£40,000; $51,500) at auction, after it was discovered it was actually a German Wehrmacht Enigma I.

The World War Two cipher machine was bought at a flea market by a cryptography professor, who apparently recognised its true worth.

It was sold to an online bidder in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday.

Enigma machines were used to carry coded military communications during the war.

First developed in Germany in the 1920s, the codes created by the electromechanical encryption devices were eventually cracked by mathematician Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park.

Bucharest auction house Artmark put this particular Enigma machine on sale with a starting price of €9,000.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40583718
 
That Alan Turing movie about him cracking the code is bloody brilliant.
 
Colleague introduced me to a book (fiction) 'Cryptonomicon' which touches on various aspects of cryptography alongside history and politics. Will read eventually when I have the time.
 
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