The Enigma Machine was used during WWII ... These lights tell you how the keys will be scrambled up. The machine works like an electrical circuit. The rotors towards the back of the machine ...

An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. Enigma was invented by the German engineer ...

Photo: A four-rotor German Enigma cipher machine made during WW2. This rare machine is thought to have been used in the post-war years for coding Swiss diplomatic traffic. (SSPL/Getty Images ...

At the end of World War II, the Germans ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Around the same time, Churchill ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Add a few decades, neglect the ...

Over two days (13-14 Nov) The Alan Turing Building played host to a genuine 1941 German Army Enigma machine so it could be X-ray scanned by the Henry Royce Institute. The machine is a basic three ...

Using X-ray Computed Tomography (CT), features inside the Enigma’s metal casing were revealed, including the wiring and structure of the rotors that encrypted messages sent using the machine. The CT ...

Concerning the German Enigma Cipher machine, this book contains original essays, historical and technical papers, and translations of historical materials and retrospectives as well as over 100 ...

ABSTRACT: A brief history and description of the first four models of the Enigma cipher machine, designed for the commercial market, taken in part from the authors' book [1]. KEYWORDS: Arthur ...

A 100 euros typewriter has sold for 45,000 euros (£40,000; $51,500) at auction, after it was discovered it was actually a German Wehrmacht Enigma I. The World War Two cipher machine was bought at ...