It was night when three British sailors and a 16-year-old canteen assistant boarded a sinking U-boat off the coast of Egypt. A spotlight shone on them from the HMS Petard, the Royal Navy destroyer ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a ...

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 ...

* 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 ...

In 1974, when the story of Ultra, the secret British program to monitor and decipher Germany's Enigma signals, was revealed, among the most shocked by the revelation that German codes had been broken ...

Among the many things that computer science pioneer Alan Turing is remembered for was his tremendous contribution to the British war effort in which he is credited with cracking Nazi Germany’s Enigma ...

An Enigma machine, used by the German military to send secret codes during World War II, beat expectations at auction by selling for more than $232,000. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

A key document by Alan Turing on the foundations of mathematical notation and computer science along with an original German 'Enigma' enciphering machine go on display at Bonhams in Hong Kong. Sharon ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. LONDON (AP) - An "Enigma" encrypting machine used to send coded military messages from Nazi Germany during World War II is going up ...

nepalnepal — An “Enigma” encrypting machine used to send coded military messages from Nazi Germany during World War II is going up for sale in London. Auction house Bonhams says the machine, encased ...