Boston’s RR Auctions is offering an auction of over 170 autographs and artifacts, with some focus on World War II relics.

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve featured Enigma machines here before; they are complex combinations of mechanical and electrical components that form one of the most recognizable encryption methods in history.

Lloyd’s system remained theoretical until this year, when Lum and his team developed a device—a quantum enigma machine—that would put the theory into practice. The device takes its name from the ...

The names of Alan Turing and the Enigma encryption machine have grown inextricably linked over the years, owing to Turing’s contribution to British decryption efforts during World War II. It’s ...

Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and collectors the world over.

A history-making relic, this 1938-built Enigma encrypted messages for the German Army. The D-reflector is the exciting detail that sets this particular cipher machine apart from other Enigmas.

The Enigma encryption machine developed by Germany during World War II was a pinnacle of its time, with the code being incredibly difficult to break. It took a monumental effort from Alan Turing ...