German machine that encoded texts in the 2nd War is auctioned for $ 733,000

Logic of the machine Enigma was broken by the mathematician Alan Turing.
Saga of the 'father of computing' was shown in the film 'The Imitation Game'.


An authentic copy of the Enigma machine, used by the Germans during World War II to encrypt messages, was auctioned on Tuesday (14) by more than 149,000 pounds, equivalent to R $ 733,000.
The codes sent by the Enigma was broken by the mathematician and scientist Alan Turing computing (1912-1954), the "father of computing", and his team at Bletchley Park. The team effort was portrayed by the movie "The Imitation Game," the 2014 Oscar winner in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
The machine auctioned by Sotheby's, London, was manufactured in 1943. Many of them were destroyed by the Germans themselves as lost space and had to retreat during the conflict. Therefore, they are very rare, which made the Sotheby's estimate the amount collected from the equivalent of R $ 245,000 and R $ 344 thousand. The winning bid, however, was worth almost twice as high as the roof of the expectations of the auction house and was given by an unidentified buyer.

The technology behind the Enigma machine was patented in 1919 and adopted by the Germans in the next decade. The function of the unit was to replace letters in a message so that its content was not understood case fall into the wrong hands. The Enigma is capable of creating 159 million million million different possible combinations a day.