![]() The U.K.’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the National Security Agency’s (NSA) origins can be traced to these encryption devices.” Alan Turing and his colleagues at the historic Bletchley Park helped turned the tide of World War II. “The need to crack the Enigma code gave rise to cryptoanalysis, and ultimately modern-day Signals Intelligence. “This newly found Enigma is an exciting piece of military and intelligence history,” Rock Holland, security officer and vice president of strategy at Digital Shadows told Threatpost in reaction to the discovery. “The first functioning computers were developed as part of the Allied efforts to break the Enigma codes and the codes of other German cipher machines during WWII.” Turing’s Cybersecurity LegacyĪlan Turing, father of modern computing, invented a computer to crack the Enigma code in 1942 and inspired generations of cryptographers to pick up his work. “The Enigma machine helped birth the computer age,” Perera said. The Allies, in their efforts to crack the Enigma’s secret code, also pushed technological boundaries. “Historians generally agree that the reading of secret messages sent by the German using Enigma machines shortened the war by at least two years, saved thousands of lives and deprived the Germans the time they needed to develop an atomic bomb,” Perera said. Its first stop is back underwater for another year in distilled water to rinse the salt out of the device, Naked Security’s report added. The Enigma was turned over the State Archaeological Office in Schleswig-Holstein where it will undergo a restoration process. “We assume our Enigma went overboard in the course of events,” he told Sophos. Huber said the Enigma was likely aboard one of 40 submarines sunk in the bay by the German Navy at the end of WWII. ![]() One ghost net they found was caught on something lead diver Florian Huber said his colleague described as an “old typewriter.” The WWF dive team was searching Gelding Bay in the Baltic Sea between Germany and Denmark for what they call “ghost nets,” a fishing device which gets hung up on something on the sea floor, harming marine life, Sophos Security explained. He added that Enigma machines have sold at auction priced between $190,000 and $270,000. Today these machines are highly sought after by governments, museums and private collectors, Perera told Threatpost. And because the Enigma’s secure code was a guarded German secret, as Allied forced approached, the military was ordered to destroy them, leaving just 320 of them surviving today, out of the more than 25,000 built for the German army from 1929 through the end of WWII, according to Dan Perera, director of the Enigma Museum. The development of the Enigma Cipher machine and the life-and-death race to crack its code wasn’t just crucial to deciding the outcome of World War II it ushered in the modern computing age. What they found instead is a treasured piece of computing history, a World War II-era German Enigma crypto machine, sunk to the bottom of the Baltic Sea to protect its precious technology from Allied forces. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife.
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