This story is a collaboration with Biography.com As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of divers found this rusted—but still recognizable—Enigma cipher machine at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The Nazis used the device to encode secret military messages during WWII. World ...

When Nazi naval officers tossed their ship’s Enigma encryption machine overboard, they probably thought they were putting the device beyond anyone’s reach. Blissfully unaware that Allied cryptanalysts ...

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 ...

German divers who recently fished an Enigma encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea, used by the Nazis to send coded messages during World War II, handed their rare find over to a museum for ...

Julia worked to break the Nazi code used to encrypt German U Boat messages traffic. Julia Parsons kept the secret of her World War II military service for nearly 50 years. A U.S. Navy WAVE, Julia ...

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 ...