Found a chest with details from the legendary Enigma

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Found a chest with details from the legendary EnigmaFrom the bottom of the Baltic Sea, a chest was raised in which the rotors of the Enigma, the legendary Third Reich cryptographic machine, lay for almost 70 years. These cogwheels with an alphabet on them and electric contacts in the middle are called the Enigma brain.

It turned out that the time above them is almost powerless: the majority are completely in working condition. They were found at a depth of 30 meters, on the spot where in 1941, a German ship hit a mine near the Latvian coast.

Sergey Semenov, diving instructor: "This rotor can work, that is, all these wiring conduct a signal, and when set on a typewriter, it will give information."

The Allies learned to decipher the radiograms sent from Enigma at the beginning of the war, although the Wehrmacht command was constantly working on new codes, complementing and complicating them.

Nowadays, to find the rotors, with the help of which the encryption of messages took place, is a great success. Now, experts are counting on finding the car itself at depth: they are waiting until it gets cold, and the water in the Baltic will become more transparent.
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