The Enigma machine was a field unit used in World War II by German field agents to encrypt and decrypt messages and communications. Invented in 1919 by Hugo Koch, a Dutchman, it looked like a ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a ...

Germany's armed forces believed their Enigma-encrypted communications were impenetrable to the Allies. But thousands of codebreakers - based in wooden huts at Britain's Bletchley Park - had other ...

The Enigma code, once deemed unbreakable by Nazi Germany and famously cracked by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park, would pose little challenge to modern computing power, say technology ...

So-called encryption wars are nothing new. The debate over government and law enforcement access to encrypted material is rightly headline news today, but it's a battle that’s been fought time and ...