Enigma machines were used during the Second World War to create the Enigma code -- messages used by the German army. Bletchley Park was at this time the location of Station X, the code-breaking ...

The original Enigma machine was an electronic cypher used by the German military in World War 2 to send coded messages.

A rare Enigma machine — a German gadget that encoded secret messages during World War II — is up for auction. The device is unique, even among Enigma machines. That's because it has a German ...

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 ...

On May 9, 1941, German sailors abandoned the damaged U-110 in the icy North Atlantic, unaware they were leaving behind a treasure trove of secrets. British crew aboard HMS Bulldog seized the rare ...

Somewhat surprisingly, rotor-based code wheel technology didn’t stop advancing in 1945, and the Enigma Museum has the machine to prove it. There were two post-war Enigma-ish machines also on ...

The Germans had been using a typewriter-like machine to encrypt their communications. They called it Enigma and were sure the code was unbreakable. The British were determined to prove them wrong.

A rare Enigma cipher machine, used by the Nazis during World War II, has been retrieved from its watery home by German divers searching for discarded fishing nets.

Churchill ordered them destroyed after the war, but one of these rare Nazi cipher machines has just been sold for $440,000.

The Royal Navy captured German U-boat U-110 on May 9, 1941 in the North Atlantic, recovering an Enigma machine, its cipher keys, and code books that allowed codebreakers to read German signal traffic ...

Only One Enigma Code Has Never Been Broken Enigma was cracked in World War II, but one message was never solved.