A WWII Enigma machine with four rotors was sold at auction earlier this week, achieving double its estimated price. Christie’s in Paris said the auction lot was “one of the rarest and hardest Enigma ...

As the June 6 anniversary of D-Day approaches, Boston’s RR Auctions is offering a sale of over 170 autographs and artifacts, with some focus on World War II relics, live on the house’s website through ...

The Enigma encryption machine developed by Germany during World War II was a pinnacle of its time, with the code being incredibly difficult to break. It took a monumental effort from Alan Turing and a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The mechanism known as the Bombe was England’s answer to Germany’s Enigma encryption machine. Bombe electrical data plus human clues allowed Alan ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

If you’re someone with a passing interest in a) cryptography, b) World War II, c) cool machines or d) all of the above, you’ve probably heard of the Enigma machine. That machine remains perhaps the ...

NCR electrical engineer Joseph R. Desch led the Navy project in a race to decipher the German Engima code under intense wartime pressure. CONTRIBUTED | DAYTON HISTORY Joseph Desch, NCR engineer who ...

The U.S. Army’s portable encryption machine, the M-209, is lighter than most of the machines here, but at 7 pounds with its case, much heavier than most smartphones. Its major innovation: a groove in ...

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...