Buyers are excited by this M4 Enigma machine due to sell next week. Will it make its £300,000 top estimate? See why it might ...

This project by [Miro] is awesome, not only did he build a replica Enigma machine using modern technologies, but after completing it, he went back and revised several components to make it more usable ...

Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine has a fascinating history and unique workings. This animation delves into its mechanisms and significance. Further topics explored include: - ...

On May 9, 1941, German sailors abandoned the damaged U-110 in the icy North Atlantic, unaware they were leaving behind a treasure trove of secrets. British crew aboard HMS Bulldog seized the rare ...

The Enigma@home project uses a distributed volunteer computing network to crack Nazi codes from the 1940s. You can donate your spare PC processing power to dozens of ...

Before we all had what are essentially little powerful computers in our pockets at the ready to solve any problem via search engines and AI, analog machines combined with pen-and-paper math was the go ...

An Enigma machine at the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. © An Enigma machine at the Mimms Museum of Technology and Art. © Mimms Museum of Technology and Art, CC ...

The particularity of these cipher devices is that they shouldn't exist anymore. Not in one piece and certainly not functional. Because it was a state secret technology, utmost care was taken by German ...

Only a few of the very top Allied generals were given information from the decrypted messages, and they were instructed to be careful not to act too openly on the intelligence, lest the Germans ...

It’s been called the geek’s Valhalla. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the world’s largest collection of computing artifacts, boasts such innovations as ENIAC, the electronic whiz; the ...

If you think about military crypto machines, you probably think about the infamous Enigma machine. However, as [Christos T.] reminds us, there were many others and, in particular, the production of a ...