The dawn of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized numerous fields, including cryptography. This advanced technology ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. At the height of World War II, Europe was in flames, falling to Hitler’s armies and bombing raids ...

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 the ...

While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

"The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten for breaking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, the British mathematician ...

Police suspect that a ransom note offering the return of a stolen Enigma machine may contain coded clues as the whereabouts of the historical artefact. Enigma was used by the Germans in the second ...

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 rare Enigma machine — a German gadget that encoded secret messages during World War II — is up for auction. The device is unique, even among Enigma machines. That's because it has a German ...

ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A challenge with trillions of potential combinations yet only one right answer may seem unsolvable. The challenge the Allied Forces faced in World War II was cracking ...