The Enigma machines had 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible settings, leading the Nazis to believe it was uncrackable. However, Turing was able to develop another machine - the Bombe - building ...

A rare Enigma encoding machine has sold at auction in London for £85,250. That is more than its £40,000-£60,000 estimate, but less than the £131,180 price an Enigma sold for last year.

Auction house Bonhams says the machine, encased in an oak carrying box and dating from 1944, is expected to fetch up to 50,000 pounds ($79,775) when it goes under the hammer on Oct. 29.

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on ...

This is the Coding Machine. It looks a lot like the old Enigma machine, doesn't it? The designer, Tatjana van Vark, who wins today's Most Dutch Name Award, won't reveal its secret—how to solve ...

The enigma machine used for cryptography during the second world war was a device which, given a short keyword, produced a pseudorandom output which could be decoded by a second machine using the same ...

A rare wartime coding machine stolen six months ago from a museum was recovered yesterday after being posted to Jeremy Paxman at the BBC.

An Enigma encryption machine used by the German army in the Second World War, one of few surviving examples according to the Dorotheum, is on offer at the Viennese auction house on 4 June with a ...

It turns out, however, that they belong to a Second World War Enigma coding machine and have only just been discovered after languishing in a cupboard at a Royal Navy base for 30 years.

And the star of the show is his own Enigma machine, which he bought abroad. "It's a robust sort of thing, it was designed to be used at the front and it's very compact.

A rare Enigma encoding machine has sold at auction in London for £85,250. That is more than its £40,000-£60,000 estimate, but less than the £131,180 price an Enigma sold for last year.