[FYI] Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge

[Hadmut Danisch]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:58:07PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <F504A8CEE925D411AF4A00508B8BE90A01E90962 at exna07.securitydynamics.co
> m>, "Trei, Peter" writes:
> >> Axel H Horns[SMTP:horns at ipjur.com]
> >> 
> >> 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.  
> >> 
> >> [...]
> >> 
> 
> 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?

I thought only the polish and the british deciphering teams
had "code-breaking" enigma machines (which became part of the
"bombe"). Wasn't the "Abwehr Enigma" a plain encryption machine?


Hadmut

[Moderator's note: I'm sure it was just a misstatement in the original
article. --Perry]


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