An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.

Enigma cipher machines have endured in the minds of history buffs and cryptography hobbyists for more than a century, still discovered at dusty French flea markets and dredged up from under beach ...

Lost Nazi cipher manuals relating to a code believed to be more advanced than the famous Enigma cipher have been discovered in Prague after more than 80 years. The original wartime manuals for the ...

The Enigma machine is perhaps one of the most legendary devices to come out of World War II. The Germans used the ingenious cryptographic device to hide their communications from the Allies, who in ...

The plugboard of an enigma machine, a cipher device that helped Nazi Germany obfuscate top-secret messages during World War II. Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski played a pivotal role in breaking ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

NCR electrical engineer Joseph R. Desch led the Navy project in a race to decipher the German Engima code under intense wartime pressure. CONTRIBUTED | DAYTON HISTORY Joseph Desch, NCR engineer who ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...