An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.

Experts have uncovered a rare artifact from World War II, an Enigma machine, used by the Nazis to prevent the Allies from learning their secrets. The discovery, made by a diving team for the World ...

After 75 years under the waves of the Baltic Sea, it looks kind of like a rusty lasagna, or a deep-fried typewriter. A rare Enigma cipher machine, used by the Nazis during World War II, has been ...

When Nazi naval officers tossed their ship’s Enigma encryption machine overboard, they probably thought they were putting the device beyond anyone’s reach. Blissfully unaware that Allied cryptanalysts ...

This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What ...

German divers have stumbled on a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis during World War II — and believe it was tossed into the Baltic Sea from a scuttled vessel. The divers, who were ...

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 ...

Divers searching for discarded fishing nets in the Baltic Sea have discovered a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis in World War II. As AFP reports, a team found the Enigma machine last ...

It’s been called the geek’s Valhalla. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, the world’s largest collection of computing artifacts, boasts such innovations as ENIAC, the electronic whiz; the ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...