Get this Enigma machine before somebody cracks the code

A 10-rotor Enigma machine is up for auction, starting bid of €25,000. Which is of course way overpriced—I’m pretty sure the cipher has already been cracked, because every time I go outside in my “Goebbels’ Goosesteppers Nat’l Clog Championships” t-shirt, people act really weird. (I’m used to it, though. People don’t really get clogging). [via Charlie Sorrel]

1. [Anonymous]

   That’s a 10-rotor Enigma. That version was never cracked.

2. [nixiebunny]

   That machine looks rather complicated, with dozens of relays and leaf switches all over the place. Based on my experience with maintaining lots of relay-based electronics, it probably produced bad codes fairly frequently after it was a few years old.

   I wonder how much time was wasted dealing with the unwanted cipher results of the unreliable electronics in these machines?

3. [strider_mt2k]

   There’s a mystery wrapped in this.

4. [mzed]

   It’s not the 10-rotor, but here’s a good software version:
   http://www.terrylong.org/

5. [Joel Johnson]

   Then my clogging shall last 1,000 years!

6. [Anonymous]

   @#3: A+++

7. [winkybb]

   @#3: Wrapped in vest…

8. [Downpressor]

   Godwinned in zero.