An Enigma machine, used by the German military to send secret codes during World War II, sold for more than $232,000.

Enigma machines are devices that perform cryptography using pseudo-random numbers. The original enigma machine code was broken by detecting hidden patterns in these pseudo-random numbers. This paper ...

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 ...

The names of Alan Turing and the Enigma encryption machine have grown inextricably linked over time, owing to Turing’s contribution to British decryption efforts during World War II. It’s ...

A rare Enigma machine used by the German army during World War II was sold at auction in Bucharest, Romania Tuesday for 45,000 euros ($51,500).

That’s because the Enigma machine used a set of rotors to change the code for each letter every time the operator pressed a key.

After 75 years under the waves of the Baltic Sea, it looks kind of like a rusty lasagna, or a deep-fried typewriter. A rare Enigma cipher machine, used by the Nazis during World War II, has been ...

However, another Enigma machine sold last year for £131,180. The British built an electromechanical Bombe machine to crack Enigma's codes, a project in which computing pioneer Alan Turing was a ...