The particularity of these cipher devices is that they shouldn't exist anymore. Not in one piece and certainly not functional. Because it was a state secret technology, utmost care was taken by German ...

The Nazi relic's history is riddled with resilience errors, and those lessons still apply to defending against modern cyber ...

Only a few of the very top Allied generals were given information from the decrypted messages, and they were instructed to be careful not to act too openly on the intelligence, lest the Germans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Fritz Menzer did not just come up with this machine - he developed other machines. And he also worked on cryptanalysis machines ...

It was a world-class stroke of good luck. An antique "typewriter" snapped up by an eagle-eyed expert in Romania for about $114 at a flea market turned out to be a rare Nazi Enigma cipher machine, CNN ...

Before and during World War II, British cryptologists developed variations on the commercial ENIGMA cipher machine. These were used to encrypt and decrypt messages so that communication could be sent ...

"Fritz Menzer did not just come up with this machine - he developed other machines. And he also worked on cryptanalysis machines to crack the codes of other countries. There has been no research on ...