November 05, 2019
He then went to Southend to investigate further
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and box canned sealing machines Manufacturers039;s National Museum of
Computing used eBay to track down the historic teleprinter for the Lorenz
cipher. The teleprinter for the Lorenz cipher machine (Photo: National Museum of
computing, UK) Volunteers from UK's National Museum of Computing used eBay to
track down the historic teleprinter for the Lorenz cipher.
A World War II-era
machine used to send personal messages between Hitler and his generals by
encrypting plain German text into secret code has been found on eBay for 9.50
pounds.Volunteers from the UK's National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park
used eBay to track down the historic teleprinter for the Lorenz cipher machine
languishing in a shed in Essex.It was advertised as a telegram machine and was
for sale for 9.50 pounds."My colleague was scanning eBay and he saw a photograph
of what seemed to be the teleprinter," said John Wetter, a volunteer at the
museum in Buckinghamshire.
He then went to Southend to investigate further where
he found the keyboard being automatic
liquid soft packaging machines Factory kept, in its original case, on the
floor of a shed "with rubbish all over it"."We said 'Thank you very much, how
much was it again ' She said '£9.50', so we said 'Here's a £10 note - keep the
change!'" the BBC reported today, quoting Wetter.The teleprinter, which
resembles a typewriter, would have been used to enter plain messages in German.
These were then encrypted by a linked cipher machine, using 12 individual wheels
with multiple settings on each, to make up the code.The museum has just received
one on loan from Norway's Armed Forces Museum, and has a video of how top secret
transmissions might have sounded.When volunteers took the teleprinter back from
Essex to the museum, they found it was stamped with the official wartime number
from the German army that matches the one on the machine from Norway.Andy Clark,
chairman of the trustees at The National Museum of Computing, said the Lorenz
was stationed in secure locations as "it # was far bigger than the famous
portable Enigma machine".
Everybody knows about Enigma, but the Lorenz machine
was used for strategic communications," said Clark. "It is so much more
complicated than the Enigma machine and, after the war, machines of the same
style remained in use."Volunteers are hoping to recreate the whole process on
June 3, from typing a message in German to cracking the code using wartime
equipment."This gives us the chance to show the breaking of the Lorenz cipher
code from start to finish," said Clark. "We can show every single point in the
process."But one key part is still missing and volunteers are still searching
for it."It looks like an electric motor in black casing with two shafts on each
side, which drive the gears of the Lorenz machine," said Wetter.
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