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 ...

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 ...

While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

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 ...

It’s one of the most famous cryptographic devices in history, and took genius computer scientists and mathematicians to crack its code for the Allies during World War II. The Enigma machine has become ...

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 ...