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 ... version with fixed rotor codes, or cut ...

The Enigma machine, with its three rotating rotors and ... The mathematics behind Enigma was daunting. Each rotor could be set to one of 26 positions, and combinations of plugboard wiring created ...

The Enigma machine was a German piece of engineering ... 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 ...

The names of Alan Turing and the Enigma encryption machine have ... All told, with a three-rotor encryption machine such as the one I saw today, the number of cipher permutations you could churn ...

The Enigma machine was an encryption device used in all branches of Nazi Germany’s military during World War 2. Former World War 1 codebreaker Dilly Knox was convinced he could break the system ...

The Enigma machine ... this is a finite-state machine, something perfectly suited for an EPROM. With all of the possible combinations programmed in advance, an initial rotor setting can be ...

Photo: A four-rotor German Enigma cipher machine made during WW2. This rare machine is thought to have been used in the post-war years for coding Swiss diplomatic traffic. (SSPL/Getty Images ...

International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine and the related role of Alan Turing.