While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

The star of the “Hacking Hitler’s Code” exhibit is an actual German Army Enigma machine, housed in its wooden box, still wearing its “Enigma, Berlin” label.

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 ...

This machine -- designed not to break Enigma, but rather the more sophisticated Lorenz codes used by the German High Command -- advanced vacuum tube tech that later came to power the world's first ...

A spokeswoman for Bonhams said the $365,000 sale price set a world record for an Enigma machine sold at auction. The purchaser at Wednesday's sale was identified only as a private collector.

NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) - A rare "Enigma" machine, used by Nazi Germany to create military communications code thought to be unbreakable, sold at auction for more than US$106,000 (S$143,000). Read ...

STUDENTS of cryptography - the science of codes - and of the Second World War will have a rare opportunity later this month.

A man will appear in court Monday charged with stealing the historic Enigma code machine from a British wartime museum, following a suitably cloak and dagger investigation by authorities. Dennis ...

A rare Enigma machine — a German gadget that encoded secret messages during World War II — is up for auction. The device is unique, even among Enigma machines. That's because it has a German ...

An Enigma encryption machine used by the German army in the Second World War, one of few surviving examples according to the Dorotheum, is on offer at the Viennese auction house on 4 June with a ...

An Enigma machine, used by the German military to send secret codes during World War II, sold for more than $232,000.