http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/27/spanish_civil_war_enigmas/ By John Leyden The Register 27th March 2012 A pair of historic Enigma machines used during the Spanish Civil War have been donated to Britain. The machines played a role in an untold chapter of British wartime code-breaking history: the early 20th-century kit encoded messages that, once intercepted, helped boffins crack German military encryption at Bletchley Park in the Second World War. When Hitler and Mussolini sent troops to fight alongside Franco's Spanish nationalists during the civil war in the 1930s, the Germans used sets of commercially available albeit modified Enigma machines to establish secure communications with their Condor Legion. Britain had purchased an off-the-shelf Enigma machine in 1927 - and although the nation's top experts understood how it worked, they had no opportunity to break Hitler's encrypted messages because the German military's signals didn't reach Britain, BBC News reports. [...] ______________________________________________________________________________ Certified Ethical Hacker and CISSP training with Expanding Security gives the best training and support. Get a free live class invite weekly. Best program, best price. www.ExpandingSecurity.com/PainPillReceived on Wed Mar 28 2012 - 02:31:25 PDT
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