The German Enigma device has always been a fascinating gadget for hackers. We’ve seen various replicas and emulators created over the years, and it was recently even the subject of our weekly ...

In the 1950s, mathematician Alan Turing — best remembered by many as the cryptography genius who led the British effort to ...

HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS RELEASE The Los Alamos Historical Society is pleased to announce its upcoming lecture, a free event ...

The Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed ...

Typex was, like the German Enigma machine, based on rotors, but it was considerably more secure. During the war, it was improved by adding a plugboard, providing an additional layer of security. Even ...

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 ...

This four-wheel Enigma machine was used by the German forces during the second world war to send coded messages. Many machines of this type were used on the U-Boat submarines sent out to disrupt ...

Ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted including, most importantly, those generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. Photo: Wrens (members of the Women's Royal Naval ...