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Please note that the information below has been written some time ago
and my have lost its relevance by now. The information is retained here
for historical reasons only.
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Museum Scryption closes down
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5 December 2011
Due to financial cuts of the Tilburg city council,
museum Scryption had to close its doors in January
2011. Most of the staff was dismissed and the entire collection was
stored elsewhere.
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During the course of 2011, the two remaining staff
members managed to produce a series of successful ad-hoc events,
such as the recent 2-day crypto exhibition at
GOVCERT 2011
that was organized in cooperation with Crypto Museum.
Furthermore, plans emerged to move the entire museum to a new location
in Eindhoven. This was met with great enthusiasm by the Eindhoven
city council, and plans were made to move to a temporary location in
the so-called Klokgebouw (Clock Building) at Strijp S,
right at the creative heart of technology city Eindhoven.
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Last month however, the Eindhoven city council unexpectedly decided not
to make the necessary funds available. As a result, the Scryption society
board has now decided to dismiss the two remaining staff members and sell
the entire collection. Crypto Museum thinks this is a great loss, not just
for Eindhoven, but for the entire country as well.
Scryption was a unique hands-on museum and was one
of the few technology museums left in this country.
We would like to thank Scryption for their
great support and cooperation. It was a pleasure working with you.
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30 November 2011
Follow in the footsteps of the famous war-time Polish codebreakers
by joining the online cryptology game at
CODEBREAKERS.EU.
The game is organized by the Marshal Office of Wielkopolska in Poland
and the Office for War Veterans and Victims of Oppression.
Anyone who is 16 years or older is invited to enter.
The winners will be invited to challenge a team of Polish codebreakers
in spring 2012. All costs will be covered.
The game will be started on 10 December 2011 and you can register your
team now.
Wielkopolska is the Polish province where three young mathematicians
of the Poznan University, Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and and Jerzy
Rozycki, first broke the Enigma codes just
before the outbreak of WWII. As part of the current Polish Presidency of
the EU, the Government of the Wielkopolska Region is trying to bring the
Polish contributions to the breaking of the Enigma codes to our attention.
Earlier this year, they organized the exhibition
Enigma, deciphered victory
in the General Maczek Museum in Breda (Netherlands).
➤ More about the game
➤ Go to the website CODEBREAKERS.EU
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In memoriam: Oskar Stürzinger (1920-2011)
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12 September 2011
And yet another iconic persion is no longer with us. Today we received
the sad news that on 23 July 2011, Oskar Sturzinger,
Boris Hagelin's
first employee in Switzerland, died at the age of 91.
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We first met Oskar during the presentation of Dominik Landwehr's book
Mythos Enigma
on 8 November 2008 in Basel (Switzerland). Although he was
already in his late 80s at the time, he travelled all the way from his home
in Monte Carlo to Basel and collected some historical Hagelin machines on
the way down.
During the day, he demonstrated the small mechanical marvels of technology
and explained the circumstances under which they were conceived.
He even insisted on giving a brief talk about the history of Hagelin.
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In Memoriam: Tony Sale (1931-2011)
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31 August 2011
Today we received the sad new that on 28 August 2011, Tony Sale, head
of the Colossus Rebuild Team,
died at the age of 80. Tony, who worked for MI5
during his professional life, spend most of his time with computers.
In 1991, when Bletchley Park
was under threat of being demolished, he formed a team to fight
for the survival of this historical place. This was the start of the
Bletchley Park Trust. When Bletchley Park opened as a museum in 1993,
Tony was its first curator.
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When Tony learned about the fact that the first electronic computer - Colossus -
was developed and built at Bletchley Park, he took upon him the enormous task
to create a working replica of it.
He started the project in 1991,
initially funded by himself and his wife Margaret.
Helped by a team of volunteers and even by some of the original engineers,
the Colossus Replica broke its first Lorenz messages in 2007.
© Photograph copyright South Bed News,
The Telegraph, 31 August 2011.
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Although Tony was already 80 years of age, he was by no means old and had many
plans for the future. He worked on Colossus nearly every day and was never too
tired to give a full explanation of its inner secrets.
During our many visits to Bletchley Park, we met Tony seveal times and it was
always a pleasure to talk with him.
His contributions to the Bletchley Park Museum and to the history of
computing will be his living memory.
Our thoughts are with his wife Margaret (herself a volunteer at BP)
and his children and grand-children.
➤ Tony Sale obituary on the TNMOC site
➤ Some great pictures of Tony Sale
➤ Tony Sale's website Code and Ciphers
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Enigma, the Polish victory
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21 June 2011
A brand new exibition about the Polish contribution to breaking the
Enigma codes, will be open between 3 July 2011 and 15 September 2011.
This exhibition, that has been running in Poland and at Bletchley Park
in the past, is now the guest of the Maczek Museum in Breda
(Netherlands).
Crypto Museum has helped setting up this exhibition by supplying some
rare cipher machines.
➤ More information
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Crypto Museum now on YouTube
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26 March 2011
Following our move to Twitter earlier this month, we are pleased to
announce that we've now opened
our own YouTube channel
as well.
Over the years we've collected some quite nice video material that we
can now share with you. Right now, only a few video clips are available.
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We've already added a few video clips to some of our pages,
and we will post new material as and when it becomes available.
Click the YouTube button at the top of each page to enter our YouTube
channel. The first video clip to be made available is a short impression
of the exhibition Secret Messages,
recorded in 2008 in Museum Jan Corver.
➤ Crypto Museum on YouTube
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KESO key for Hagelin HC-570
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25 March 2011
In December of last year, we acquired a very nice and rare Hagelin HC-570
cipher machine. Unfortunately, the primary KESO key was missing, so the
machine could neither be operated nor opened.
Luckyly, key expert Barry Wels came to the rescue once again.
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Barry helped us before in 2009, with the creation of a working key
for our Enigma M4,
without removing or damaging the lock.
Today, Barry visited Crypto Museum again and
made us a matching KESO key, using a technique called impressioning.
Watch the video.
As a result we can now start work on bringing the machine back to life.
➤ More information
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Wooden cases for Enigma-E
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12 March 2011
Some time ago, a couple of Enigma-E users produced oak wooden boxes in
small quantities. Interested Enigma-E users were able to order these
boxes via e-mail. Unfortunately, the source of these wooden boxes
seem to have dried up now. There is good news however.
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We are pleased to announce that we are now able to supply our own
pre-built oak wooden cases for the Enigma-E.
The cases are all of excellent quality, including hinges, but no locks.
They are available from the usual outlets:
Museum Jan Corver (Netherlands) and the Bletchley Park Museum shop (UK).
Both ship world-wide. For pricing, please refer to the respective
websites.
➤ More information
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Crypto Museum now on Twitter
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1 March 2011
As many people use social media these days,
Crypto Museum has opened its own Twitter account.
If you want to know which new items have been added
to our website, or in which exhibition our stuff can be viewed,
follow us on twitter.
Alternatively, you may click the blue twitter icon at the top of each page.
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