A history-making relic, this 1938-built Enigma encrypted messages for the German Army. The D-reflector is the exciting detail that sets this particular cipher machine apart from other Enigmas.

A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II.

The development of the Enigma Cipher machine and the life-and-death race to crack its code wasn’t just crucial to deciding the outcome of World War II; it ushered in the modern computing age.

An Enigma machine that was used by the Nazis to encrypt secret messages during World War II is up for auction later this week.

There were two post-war Enigma-ish machines also on display, one from the Swiss, and one from the Soviets. The Swiss NEMA cipher machine was first produced in 1947 and used through the cold war.

The U.S. antisubmarine task force captured the Nazi submarine along with its crew, technology, encryption codes and a working Enigma cipher machine.

A rare Enigma cipher machine used by the Nazi military during World War II is pictured on the seabed of Gelting Bay near Flensburg, Germany. Christian Howe/Reuters The story was made into the 2014 ...

An extremely rare German four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine from the Second World War has set a new world auction record at a Christie's sale at Rockefeller Center in New York. The property of an ...

The museum is in the building occupied by a top-secret wartime team of code-breakers who cracked the Enigma cipher.

POCATELLO — Taken from the bowels of a German U-boat during World War II, a working Enigma cipher machine has made its way to Idaho State University.

Enigma, which co-stars Dougray Scott and Saffron Burrows, tells the real-life tale of the top-secret code-breaking unit set up by Britain to crack the Enigma cipher used by German U-boats, the ...