The Spanish link in cracking the Enigma code (fwd)

23 March 2012

The Spanish link in cracking the Enigma code
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By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News

A pair of rare Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War have been 
given to the head of GCHQ, Britain's communications intelligence agency. 
The machines - only recently discovered in Spain - fill in a missing 
chapter in the history of British code-breaking, paving the way for 
crucial successes in World War II.

A row of senior Spanish military and intelligence officers stand upright 
in a line in front of a long elegant table in the country's Army Museum in 
Toledo. In front of them are two modest, slightly battered wooden boxes 
that are the subject of the day's unusual and high-powered gathering.

Inside they contain a key part of Britain's code-breaking history.

With their lids open, the distinctive black and white keypad and rotors of 
an Enigma machine used to encrypt communications can be seen...../snip/


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17486464

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/59255000/jpg/_59255749_photo2_304.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9708000/9708423.stm


http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2010.485414

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01611194.2010.485414


http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/24/spanish_enigmas/