For decades, the Schlüsselgerät 41 (SG-41) was a ghost in the history of cryptography. More advanced than the famous Enigma, ...

Lost manuals uncovered in Prague explain the operation and encryption system of a mysterious Nazi machine used during World War II.

A team of divers found this rusted—but still recognizable—Enigma cipher machine at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The Nazis used the device to encode secret military messages during WWII. World ...

The particularity of these cipher devices is that they shouldn't exist anymore. Not in one piece and certainly not functional. Because it was a state secret technology, utmost care was taken by German ...

As the June 6 anniversary of D-Day approaches, Boston’s RR Auctions is offering a sale of over 170 autographs and artifacts, with some focus on World War II relics, live on the house’s website through ...

Edward Hebern of California designed this machine to encipher and decipher typed messages. It uses one of the most important developments in cipher machines, the rotor. Rotary cipher machines were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Fritz Menzer did not just come up with this machine - he developed other machines. And he also worked on cryptanalysis machines ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The American inventor Edward Hebern ...

The Nazi relic's history is riddled with resilience errors, and those lessons still apply to defending against modern cyber ...

ebay has been used to sell some remarkable items but, amazingly, there's a live auction right now for a German WWII Enigma cipher machine. With under three hours left to go, bidding stands at EUR ...

Divers scouring the Baltic Sea for discarded fishing nets have stumbled on the rarest of finds: an Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to encode secret messages during World War II. The ...