Only one code machine made it all the way through the war without being compromised: the US Army's Sigaba (which the navy called the Electric
Cipher Machine, or ECM).
Here's just some of them: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (1963): When Bond has to retrieve a Soviet
cipher machine, Q knows exactly the item he needs - a Rolleiflex camera that doubles as a tape recorder.
After U-110 was captured in mid-Atlantic along with her Enigma codebooks and
cipher machine on May 9, 1941, and after the U-boat sank, Bacon was dispatched from Bletchley Park to collect the booty from the destroyer HMS Bulldog, which had brought back what had been taken to Scapa Flow, the British naval base in the Orkneys.
The "typewriter" was, in fact, a German Wehrmacht Enigma I, a World War Two
cipher machine, and the collector who bought it put it up for sale at the Bucharest auction house Artmark with a starting price of 9,000 euros ($10,300) (www.artmark.ro).
I am sure most of you have seen the media coverage of the rare
cipher machine being sold on eBay for PS9.50.
These were then encrypted by the linked Lorenz
cipher machine using 12 individual wheels, each with multiple settings, to create the code.
This July Sotheby's London offered a rare and exceptionally well-preserved example of the World War II
cipher machine, The Enigma.
There will be a working Enigma
cipher machine and activities including making lip balm.
At the same time, he's conceiving a machine that will somehow defeat the Germans' own
cipher machine, the Enigma, which uses code that changes every 24 hours, rendering traditional decrypting methods useless.
Navy
cipher machine. She briefly left the Navy to be a technical advisor at Hebern Electric Code Company, but returned two years later with knowledge of Hebern's advancements in rotor technology, which, according to an NSA article, would "affect machine cryptography for years to come."
Leibniz and Cryptography: An Account on the Occasion of the Initial Exhibition of the Reconstruction of Leibniz's
Cipher Machine. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Library System, 2012.