The files include operating instructions for the SG-41, encryption rules and key tables used during the closing weeks of the war ...

For decades, the Schlüsselgerät 41 (SG-41) was a ghost in the history of cryptography. More advanced than the famous Enigma, ...

Lost manuals uncovered in Prague explain the operation and encryption system of a mysterious Nazi machine used during World War II.

As the June 6 anniversary of D-Day approaches, Boston’s RR Auctions is offering a sale of over 170 autographs and artifacts, with some focus on World War II relics, live on the house’s website through ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied task groups dubbed ...

Edward Hebern of California designed this rotor for a cipher machine. Commercial rotary cipher machines would be introduced in the 1920s and 1930s for commercial purposes by several people in several ...

If you think about military crypto machines, you probably think about the infamous Enigma machine. However, as [Christos T.] reminds us, there were many others and, in particular, the production of a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The American inventor Edward Hebern ...

The computing factory that defeated the cipherIn Alan Turing's world, at Bletchley Park, there wasn't time to crack a PIN with brute force, as ciphers changed too often and lives were at risk. By Dr ...

The boarding party that captured U-505 on June 4, 1944. (Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago) Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted. Allied ...