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.

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.

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 ...

If you have ever dreamt of owning a World War II Enigma Machine, a three-rotor cipher machine will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The machine was originally made for the German military ...

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

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

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 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 at least two major things that gave Britain’s codebreakers at Bletchley Park a headstart in breaking the German Enigma code machine. * A German spy defected before the war and gave the ...