* A German spy defected before the war and gave the French a working military Enigma machine and a starter codebook. The French shared this to the British and the Polish * the Poles could decrypt ...

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 ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

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 ...

If you have ever dreamt of owning a World War II Enigma Machine, a three-rotor cipher machine will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The machine was originally made for the German military in ...

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 ...

German divers have stumbled on a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis during World War II — and believe it was tossed into the Baltic Sea from a scuttled vessel. The divers, who were ...

A masters' student at the University of Cambridge, Hal Evans, has successfully built the first fully functioning replica of a cyclometer – a machine built in the early 1930s by Polish mathematicians ...

Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered. The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected to the famous ...

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