The property, which houses the experts who cracked the German Enigma cipher machine during WWII, is up for sale for £3.25 million (about $3.8 million), Wrote Daily Mail newspaper.
We are talking about a mansion in the county of Bedfordshire in the central part of the UK. The building dates from the 18th century.
During World War II, the Germans used Enigma machines to encrypt messages using an ever-changing code. Before the war, Polish mathematicians found the key to the device’s algorithm, but the Nazis later perfected the encryption system.
In 1941, a group of researchers developed a more advanced device for deciphering German messages. Among the scientists was the English mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954), one of the founders of modern computer science and the theory of artificial intelligence.
ZDNet portal on August 24 knowledgeableThe first-generation iPhone in a sealed box sold for $35,000 at the RR Auction online auction. We are talking about the A1203 model with 8 GB of internal memory.