It was high-tech encryption for an important period of time in the mid-1940s, so perhaps you can forgive us our obsession with the Enigma machine. But did you know that you can make your very own E… ...

Also: Rare and hardest to crack Enigma code machine sells for $437,000 The dive team found the Enigma machine this November at the bottom of Gelting Bay in the Baltic Sea.

Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

Invented to make secret codes at the end of World War I but made famous by the Nazis (and by the British cryptographers who eventually deciphered its encryptions), the Enigma machine is a marvel ...

Enigma machines are best known for their use in sending secure German military communications during World War II. The university has two models on display.

Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine concept. His codebreaking during World War II significantly shortened the ...

It was first invented in 1918 by a German businessmen who sold it commercially to banks. The codes were changed daily by Enigma machine encrypters making it almost impossible to break.

How an Enigma machine works Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

The Enigma 'typewriter' In 2001, the release of the feature film Enigma sparked great interest in the tweedy world of the boffins who broke Nazi Germany's secret wartime communications codes. But ...

German divers who recently fished an Enigma encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea, used by the Nazis to send coded messages during World War II, handed their rare find over to a museum for ...

A man is being questioned by police in connection with the theft of the World War II Enigma code machine stolen from Bletchley Park.