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tonyPick writes:

IEEE Spectrum has an article on building your own Enigma machine from a supplied kit:

Nearly a century after its invention, the electromechanical Enigma cipher machine still strikes a deep chord among the digerati. Used by the German military to encode communications in the run-up to and during World War II, the Enigma has achieved a mythic quality in computing history—the Medusa slain by the hero Turing with the new weapon of digital logic.

This is built around the kit from S&T GeoTronics, which was funded through a kickstarter in April.

Additional background on the Enigma machine from wikipedia and at Bletchley park, as well as a software emulated machine are also available for the curious.

1. "tonyPick" - https://soylentnews.org/~tonyPick/
2. "building your own Enigma machine" - http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/build-your-own-enigma-cipher-machine
3. "S&T GeoTronics" - http://www.stgeotronics.com/
4. "background on the Enigma machine from wikipedia" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine
5. "at Bletchley park" - http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/hist/worldwartwo/enigma.rhtm
6. "software emulated machine" - http://enigma.louisedade.co.uk/enigma.html

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