Encryption machines used by Hitler during World War II will be displayed on eBay

Speaking of cryptographic machines that Germany used during World War II,Enigma"Is famous, but adopting a more complicated encryption scheme"Lorentz encryption machine"Was also used by Hitler and its generals. A valuable cryptographic machine that encrypts text using such 12 gears has been found on the eBay of the Internet auction site.

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A cryptographic machine that Hitler used to exchanging confidential messages with generals under the Second World War was found in the Essex State in the eastern part of England. I discovered in EnglandNational Computing MuseumVolunteer, was found sold at 9.5 pounds (about 1500 yen) on eBay on the Internet auction site.

"My colleague was watching eBay, but I found a picture of something like a typewriter there," says John Wetter, who works as a volunteer at the National Computing Museum. Wetter's colleague who discovered something like a typewriter will soon head to Southend-on-Sea, Essex. And he seems to have headed to the place where the real typewriter found on eBay is stored.

In the following pictures are John · Wetter (right) and "Acting on decoding of German cipher communication during World War II"ColossusBill Tut (left), a nephew of a cryptanalyzer Bill-Tat who was involved in the development of "


The National Computing Museum displays the real thing of the Lorenz crypto machine borrowed from the military museum in Norway. Comparing the official wartime number described in the "real Lorenz cryptographic machine" with the typewriter number that was on eBay, it turned out that this was consistent and found to be a real Lorenz cryptographic machine Did.

Andy Clark, president of the National Computing Museum said, "Lorentz encryption machines were used for wartime strategic communication, they have a much more complicated structure than Enigma, and their size is much larger. , After the war the cryptographic equipment adopting the encryption method similar to the Lorenz cryptographic machine was used "was commented.

Betty O'Connell (left) and Eileen · Dixon (right) are reflected in the following photos. People who said that the two worked to decipher the ciphertext of Lorenz cryptographic machine during the Second World War.


The National Computing Museum hopes to type German with a Lorentz cryptographic machine and analyze the encrypted text with a cryptanalyzer used by the UK during World War II. However, the discovered Lorenz cryptographic machine lost a part of the important parts and is currently desperately seeking this among volunteers. If the part can not be found, it is also under consideration to overcome the substitute parts until it is found.