A 1944 Enigma cipher machine has auctioned for £305,200 in London. The M4 machine was in wonderful condition. Read more here.

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 ...

Experts have uncovered a rare artifact from World War II, an Enigma machine, used by the Nazis to prevent the Allies from learning their secrets. The discovery, made by a diving team for the World ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

A rare Enigma machine used by Nazi Germany during World War II was sold at auction Tuesday for 45,000 euros ($51,500). A rare Enigma machine used by Nazi Germany during World War II was sold at ...

During World War II, the Axis forces communicated through a groundbreaking encryption mechanism called the Enigma machine. Using a series of rotating dials that would be set in a specific position at ...

I like serendipity when it happens -- especially when it concerns something as odd as the current head of the National Security Agency and the German World War II encryption device known as the " ...

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 ...

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 ...

Divers trying to remove old fishing nets from the Baltic sea have accidentally stumbled on a Nazi code-making machine. The Enigma machine, as it's called, looks a bit like a typewriter. In fact, the ...