An Enigma machine that was used by the Nazis to encrypt secret messages during World War II is up for auction later this week. “This machine being auctioned was designed by the German Navy and was ...

LONDON – An "Enigma" encrypting machine used to send coded military messages from Nazi Germany during World War II is going up for sale in London. Auction house Bonhams says the machine, encased in an ...

Throughout history, the ability to intercept and decode enemy communications has often determined the outcome of battles, campaigns, and entire wars. The story of cryptography in warfare is one of ...

More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. The M4 Project began ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A challenge with trillions of potential combinations yet only one right answer may seem unsolvable. The challenge the Allied Forces faced in World War II was cracking ...

You don't have to be a Bletchley Park alumnus or a wealthy WWII military collector to lay your hands on an Enigma machine. With some savvy technical skills and computer coding, you can make one ...

When Nazi naval officers tossed their ship’s Enigma encryption machine overboard, they probably thought they were putting the device beyond anyone’s reach. Blissfully unaware that Allied cryptanalysts ...

Divers trying to remove old fishing nets from the Baltic sea have accidentally stumbled on a Nazi code-making machine. The Enigma machine, as it's called, looks a bit like a typewriter. In fact, the ...

In the dark days of World War II, the secretive staff at a large building on Nebraska Avenue NW in Washington kept a scoreboard of its success. Each time a German U-boat was sunk by the U.S. Navy, ...