It’s one of the most famous cryptographic devices in history, and took genius computer scientists and mathematicians to crack its code for the Allies during World War II. The Enigma machine has become ...

The Enigma machine as used by the German military during World War Two exerts a curious fascination among our community of hardware hackers and makers. Perhaps it is the mechanical complexity of 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 ...

This tip comes by way of Gadget Lab reader Ken Fricklas, who calls it “The coolest cypherpunk gizmo, ever.” And we’d have to agree, especially as it could be ours for a reserve price of just €25,000 ...

A rare, four-motor Enigma Machine was auctioned off at a record price of $463,500 yesterday at Bonhams History of Science and Technology Sale. The sale surpassed the previous record of $350,000, which ...

WHAT: The international community of scientific machine collectors went all agog last December when Bonhams New York realized $463,500 for an intact M4 World War II Enigma machine. The result was a ...

One of the rarest surviving Enigma cipher machines has sold at auction for a record price of US$463,500. An artifact of one of the most exciting episodes of World War II, the fully operational Enigma ...

Items from The Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Collection will also be available. BEDFORD, Texas, Nov. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- An original World War II German Enigma machine, one of the most important ...

Every flea-market aficionado dreams of the day they find a true treasure. Not so long ago, that day came for a collector at a flea market in Bucharest, Romania, who found an intact German Enigma ...