Re: BLETCHLEYPARK Digest - 10 Mar 2012 to 23 Mar 2012 (#2012-12)

For a detailed report on the Spanish Enigma see Cryptologia, Vol 34, Issue
4, October 2010
Spanish Enigma: A History of the Enigma in Spain by Jose Ramon Fuensanta,
Francisco Javier Lopez-Brea Espiau and Frode Weierud.
Regards
John Jackson

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  1. The Spanish link in cracking the Enigma code (fwd)

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Date:    Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:25:43 +0000
From:    Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]>
Subject: 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/

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