A rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to communicate without interception and translation by opposing nations fetched $106,250 at auction Saturday. The buyer’s identity was not ...

The world owes so much to Alan Turing. Without his quick and clever mind, the Allied Forces may never have been able to ...

This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine ...

It was night when three British sailors and a 16-year-old canteen assistant boarded a sinking U-boat off the coast of Egypt. A spotlight shone on them from the HMS Petard, the Royal Navy destroyer ...

To many, the Enigma machine is an enigma. But it’s really quite simple. The following is a step-by-step explanation of how it works, from the basics to the full machine. Possibly the greatest ...

Divers performing clean-up services in the Baltic Sea discovered a lost Nazi Enigma machine from World War II. The divers, who were clearing the sea of fishing nets that could potentially harm ...

Two antiquities of technology—once at the vanguard of human ingenuity—are back as leading lots at the Christie’s Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts Including Americana and the Eric C. Caren Collection ...

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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 ...