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If you are at all familiar with the spying technology and/or encryption techniques of World War II, you will have heard of the Enigma encryption machine. This machine was used as an encryption device by the German army during WWII and was thought to be uncrackable.

During WWII the German army used Enigma coding machines to encipher most of their radio messages. At the time the Germans were convinced that this machine was unbreakable, but recent history has proven them wrong. For most of the war, the Poles, and later the British and Americans managed to decipher the German messages which is now believed to have shortened the war by some 2 years. – xat.nl

Now, thanks to these folks, you can build your own Enigma coding device. Check it out!

Originally found on Hacked Gadgets

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