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Enigma-E Building kit
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During WWII the German Army used the Enigma coding machine for the ecryption of nearly
all radio traffic. At the time it was thought that these codes were unbreakable, but
recent history has proven otherwise. Prior to WWII, the Poles managed to break into the
German radio traffic and intercepted a large part of their messages.
During WWII it was mainly the Brittish who intercepted and decyphered the majority
of German messages. This large scale intercept operation is now beleived to have
shortened the war by some two years.
Although about 40,000 Enigma machines have been built, most of them have been lost during
or after the war. Most of the ones that did survive, can now ben seen in museums all over
the world. One such museum is Bletchley Park in the UK, where the Government Code
and Cypher School (GCCS) decyphered most of the German radio traffic durig WWII.
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An electronic variant
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Once you've seen a real Enigma machine, you are likely to want one. However, due to the
small number of machines available, and their high price, posession of a real machine
is not an option for most of us. Hence the reason to create an electronic variant and
make it available as a building kit: The Enigma-E. The electronic Enigma if fully
compatible with a real Enigma and can therefore be used to echange real messages.
 More information is available on the special Enigma-E website
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