1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British remove a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known to the Allies as Enigma, and then they ...

British codebreakers using modified British Typex cipher machines in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in 1942. Bletchley Park was the British forces' intelligence centre ...

Rare Nazi coding machine bought from British woman on eBay for £9.50 The UK's National Museum of Computing spotted ad last week on the online auction site for the rare WWII-era Lorenz SZ42 cipher ...

You never know what will turn up on eBay. Volunteers from the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park, England, found the keyboard of a Lorenz machine—a cipher system used to create ...

Rebuilt British cipher-breaking machine used in World War II is beaten in code-breaking challenge by German man who wrote his own software.

The Royal Navy captured German U-boat U-110 on May 9, 1941 in the North Atlantic, recovering an Enigma machine, its cipher keys, ... On May 9, British destroyers HMS Bulldog, HMS Broadway, and HMS ...

The teleprinter will join an exhibit on World War II code-breaking. The teleprinter part of a Lorenz cipher machine that was purchased by the National Museum of Computing from eBay for 10 GBP (14. ...

While the machine was a marvel, it did have a problem. With certain settings, the machine had a very low cipher period (338 compared to 16,900 for Enigma). This wasn’t just theoretical, either.

WWII German Enigma I Cipher Machine (c. 1943). Courtesy RR Auctions. Another artifact, estimated at $10,000, is a Navy ensign flag that flew from an American ship on D-Day.