Enigma cipher machines have endured in the minds of history buffs and cryptography hobbyists for more than a century, still discovered at dusty French flea markets and dredged up from under beach ...

In the Oscar-nominated movie “The Imitation Game,” a group of young British mathematicians is tasked with cracking the German Engima machine, the cipher device that the Nazis used to encrypt and ...

At Sunday's 87th Academy Awards, one of the nominees for Best Picture is "The Imitation Game," which tells the story of Alan Turing, the British mathematician who, during World War II, managed to ...

Enigma machines have captivated everyone from legendary code breaker Alan Turing and the dedicated cryptographers from England's Bletchley Park to historians and collectors the world over. But while ...

So-called encryption wars are nothing new. The debate over government and law enforcement access to encrypted material is rightly headline news today, but it's a battle that’s been fought time and ...

Museum founder and historian Kenneth Rendell talks about the history of these rare machines, prominently featured in the Oscar-nominated film The Imitation Game. This year, The Imitation Game—now ...

You don't have to be a Bletchley Park alumnus or a wealthy WWII military collector to lay your hands on an Enigma machine. With some savvy technical skills and computer coding, you can make one ...

Museum founder and historian Kenneth Rendell talks about the history of these rare machines, prominently featured in the Oscar-nominated film The Imitation Game. This year, The Imitation Game—now ...