The Enigma machine is perhaps one of the most legendary devices to come out of World War II. The Germans used the ingenious cryptographic device to hide their communications from the Allies, who in… ...

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 ...

One Enigma machine typically came with a set of three rotors, each of which could be set to one of the 26 letters of the alphabet.

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

The army and Luftwaffe used a three-rotor Enigma, the navy used a four-rotor Enigma, and it was the navy codes that played a pivotal part in preparing for D-day, so the simulation we saw was ...

Also, since the rotor of the original Enigma is circular, it keeps spinning and can decipher any number of characters, but the rotor of the Paper Enigma Machine has a lower end.

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 ...

A recent Today Programme puzzle found that with a set of 5 Enigma rotors there are a total of 5*4*3=60 different ways to pick a subset of 3 (as the final order matters). Enigma operation rules ...

An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. Enigma was invented by the German engineer ...

Enigma machines used three or four mechanical rotors to scramble electrical circuits that assigned the letters of the message to be encrypted into letters of coded text.