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Spanish discover cache of 26 Enigma machines

Spanish newspaper El País last week tracked down 26 examples of Franco's "secret weapon" against Republican forces in the country's civil war - a cache of perfectly-preserved Enigma machines hidden for years in a "gloomy office" in the army's main headquarters in Madrid. Nationalist forces led by Franco acquired their first ten …

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Anonymous Coward
Coat

Enima Market finally Crashes

looks like the 2nd hand market price of these things finaly took a hit, much like the world economy.

i wonder how long it is before someone twigs that these machines were knocked up in a factory in china, as a exotic get rich quick scheme...

Mines the one with made in PRC stamped on the bottom... but in encrypted format

Anonymous Coward
Joke

Is this how they discovered...

that Franco rigged the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest, robbing Cliff Richard of his victory?

Mister_C
Happy

ebay.es

Just searched Spain's tat bazaar.

18 lots, no code boxes

:(

maybe next week

Andy Barber
Joke

@ AC

This was an act of kindness to prevent Cliff from winning!

chris
Unhappy

Cbsdfmpob ufumqipof fydibohf

There was me thinking that Stalin was Franco's secret weapon in the Civil War.

Fraser

Interestingly

After the war, the British kept secret their ability to routinely crack the Enigma and sold the Enigma as a commercial high-strength encryption system.

Genius.

Secretgeek
Coat

Yes but...

...can they run Crysis?

Half way out the door already.

Anonymous Coward
Coat

26 enigmas ?

That's 2 Elgars in SI units.

Anonymous Coward
Coat

26 enigmas? (part deux)

Actually they found 27, but one is the Enigma which I will not explain.

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