A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a Christie's auction for £347,250 ($437,955). The winning bid for the ...

Codebreakers' work played a key role in the Allied invasion on D-Day -- and created the world that’s led us to today’s encryption battles. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally ...

A man will appear in court Monday charged with stealing the historic Enigma code machine from a British wartime museum, following a suitably cloak and dagger investigation by authorities. Dennis Yates ...

Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created -- the Enigma machine -- may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the German romantic poets at ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. At the height of World War II, Europe was in flames, falling to Hitler’s armies and bombing raids ...

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 ...

A rare Enigma machine — a German gadget that encoded secret messages during World War II — is up for auction. The device is unique, even among Enigma machines. That's because it has a German ...

An Enigma machine, used by the German military to send secret codes during World War II, beat expectations at auction by selling for more than $232,000. The codes sent by these machines were famously ...

So-called encryption wars are nothing new. The debate over government and law enforcement access to encrypted material is rightly headline news today, but it's a battle that’s been fought time and ...

The decoders over at Reddit have solved the mystery of the Call of Duty: WW2 classified website's Enigma machine. The site launched just after the Call of Duty: WW2 reveal livestream, and it features ...

One of the legendary Nazi cipher machines used by Adolf Hitler’s military when they tried to take over the world is coming up for auction this weekend and is expected to fetch about $100,000. The rare ...