An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.

A rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to communicate without interception and translation by opposing nations fetched $106,250 at auction Saturday. The buyer’s identity was not ...

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 ...

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Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

When Nazi naval officers tossed their ship’s Enigma encryption machine overboard, they probably thought they were putting the device beyond anyone’s reach. Blissfully unaware that Allied cryptanalysts ...

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Experts have uncovered a rare artifact from World War II, an Enigma machine, used by the Nazis to prevent the Allies from learning their secrets. The discovery, made by a diving team for the World ...