You can put hands on an Enigma!

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US Museum Lets 'Imitation Game' Fans Encrypt Their Own Codes
NATICK, Mass. - Feb 20, 2015, 11:51 AM ET
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
A little-known war museum outside Boston is drawing back the curtain
on a key secret of "The Imitation Game," giving visitors a rare chance to
use the complex Nazi Enigma coding machines at the center of the
Oscar-nominated film.
The Museum of World War II's new exhibit "The Most Secret Top
Secret: The German Enigma Code Machines" is billed as the largest
public display of the encryption machines, which the Nazis used for
nearly every level of military communication, from the mundane to
the top secret.
Among the nine machines in the exhibit are two that visitors can use to
encrypt and decrypt their own messages. ----

IMHO, the rest is well worth reading.


http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/imitation-game-introduces-wwii-codebreakers-audiences-29095169
or
http://www.omaha.com/news/nation/us-museum-lets-imitation-game-fans-encrypt-their-own-codes/article_4e376eef-ca4d-5426-8373-52c8503d0fcc.html?mode=jqm

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Post by a425couple
US Museum Lets 'Imitation Game' Fans Encrypt Their Own Codes
NATICK, Mass. - Feb 20, 2015, 11:51 AM ET
By PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
A little-known war museum outside Boston is drawing back the curtain
on a key secret of "The Imitation Game," giving visitors a rare chance to
use the complex Nazi Enigma coding machines at the center of the
Oscar-nominated film.
The Museum of World War II's new exhibit "The Most Secret Top
Secret: The German Enigma Code Machines" is billed as the largest
public display of the encryption machines, which the Nazis used for
nearly every level of military communication, from the mundane to
the top secret.
Among the nine machines in the exhibit are two that visitors can use to
encrypt and decrypt their own messages. ----

Before you believe the movie and the folklore, read
about the "enigma machine" in Wikipedia.
Just a short quote: Though Enigma had some cryptographic
weaknesses, in practice it was German procedural flaws,
operator mistakes, laziness, failure to systematically
introduce changes in encipherment procedures, and Allied
capture of key tables and hardware that, during the war,
enabled Allied cryptologists to succeed.

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