[FYI] Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge

[Steven M. Bellovin]

In message <F504A8CEE925D411AF4A00508B8BE90A01E90962 at exna07.securitydynamics.co
m>, "Trei, Peter" writes:
>> Axel H Horns[SMTP:horns at ipjur.com]
>> 
>> 
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1564000/1564878.stm
>> 
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>> Wednesday, 26 September, 2001, 15:25 GMT 16:25 UK  
>> 
>> Antiques man guilty of Enigma charge 
>> 
>> 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.  
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>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.
>
>They're rare, but not *that* rare. The toughest part in keeping
>them going is getting the odd little lightbulbs which indicate the
>output.

The machine in question is an Abwehr Enigma, a variant of the basic 
design.  (There were a fair number of variants, in fact.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
				  http://www.wilyhacker.com





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