* A German spy defected before the war and gave the French a working military Enigma machine and a starter codebook. The French shared this to the British and the Polish * the Poles could decrypt ...

A masters' student at the University of Cambridge, Hal Evans, has successfully built the first fully functioning replica of a cyclometer – a machine built in the early 1930s by Polish mathematicians ...

This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What ...

Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered. The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected to the famous ...

Julia Parsons with her service photo. Pittsburgh-native Julia Parsons wasn’t able to talk about her work code-breaking German messages during World War II for decades because her work was top secret.

During World War II, dozens of women students at Cambridge University worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi codes, but only now are the unsung heroes getting recognition. At least ...

A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a Christie's auction for £347,250 ($437,955). The winning bid for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 The machine was originally made for the German military in ...