Enigma Machine Recovered from the Baltic Sea
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Neat story:
German divers searching the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled upon a rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War Two which they believe was thrown overboard from a scuttled submarine.
Thinking they had discovered a typewriter entangled in a net on the seabed of Gelting Bay, underwater archaeologist Florian Huber quickly realised the historical significance of the find.
EDITED TO ADD: Slashdot thread.
Tags: Enigma, history of cryptography
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