At the end of World War II, the Germans ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Around the same time, Churchill ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Add a few decades, neglect the ...

Sometimes it was even possible to predict that a message passed at a lower level, on a system that had already been broken, would be repeated on a radio link using the Enigma cipher. If the two ...

a technology light-years beyond the electromechanical bombe that Turing used to break the German Enigma cipher. I’m sure those new cryptographic methods will work just fine. But there is one ...

Their project is instead modeled on the original Enigma M4 cipher machine, and aside from a bit of artistic license, we think they nailed the visual style. As for functionality, the guide claims ...

Photo: A four-rotor German Enigma cipher machine made during WW2. This rare machine is thought to have been used in the post-war years for coding Swiss diplomatic traffic. (SSPL/Getty Images ...

Probably the most important cryptographic event of the war was the successful decryption by the Allies of the German "Enigma" Cipher. The first complete break into Enigma was accomplished by ...

and for over a year Bletchley Park was able to use these decrypts to gain intelligence in areas not covered by Enigma or other broken systems. Like the Playfair, the Double Playfair cipher uses ...

ROT13 Cipher, based on Caesar Cipher (original illustration ... machine with the latest technology to perform scrambling. The Enigma machine was invented by Arthur Scherbius to secure diplomatic ...