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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

SIGABA could be remotely linked up to devices of a similar make — such as the British Combined Cipher Machine — to facilitate covert communication, but that was the only exception.

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.