It was high-tech encryption for an important period of time in the mid-1940s, so perhaps you can forgive us our obsession with the Enigma machine. But did you know that you can make your very own ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Enigma machine, first patented in 1919 ... let alone transmit or receive it. From the cipher operator's point of view, it consisted of first a keyboard of 26 letters in the pattern of the ...

To understand how Nema came to be, we need to go back to the start: the Swiss army used the German cipher machine Enigma during the Second World War. Or, to be more precise, a special version of ...

Scientists working at The University of Manchester have shone new light on the Enigma machine used by the German military in World War Two and cracked by Alan Turing and his team of code breakers at ...

Machine ciphers were developed to try to protect ... would be repeated on a radio link using the Enigma cipher. If the two identical messages could be matched up, in what was known as a 'kiss ...

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for ... explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park.