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 rare, four-motor Enigma Machine was auctioned off at a record price of $463,500 yesterday at Bonhams History of Science and Technology Sale. The sale surpassed the previous record of $350,000, which ...

The Enigma machine is perhaps one of the most legendary devices to come out of World War II. The Germans used the ingenious cryptographic device to hide their communications from the Allies, who in ...

One of the rarest surviving Enigma cipher machines has sold at auction for a record price of US$463,500. An artifact of one of the most exciting episodes of World War II, the fully operational Enigma ...

Robert Welsh approaches the inner workings of the notorious German Enigma machine with the same innate curiosity that drove him as a young boy to disassemble assorted gizmos to see how they functioned ...

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 ...

A team of divers found this rusted—but still recognizable—Enigma cipher machine at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The Nazis used the device to encode secret military messages during WWII. World ...

WHAT: The international community of scientific machine collectors went all agog last December when Bonhams New York realized $463,500 for an intact M4 World War II Enigma machine. The result was a ...

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 ...

Every flea-market aficionado dreams of the day they find a true treasure. Not so long ago, that day came for a collector at a flea market in Bucharest, Romania, who found an intact German Enigma ...

The rarest and non-crackable (until Alan Turing came) technology in the history of World War 2 is now being auctioned. Have you heard about the German's 'Enigma machine'? If yes, history taught us ...

If you’re feeling flush this week, then perhaps instead of buying a second Bugatti you might consider picking up this lightly used Enigma Machine. These devices, the scourge of the Allies in World War ...