A legendary code-breaking story, secret wartime inventions and the fascinating history of cryptology displayed in the National Technical Museum in Prague.

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 ...

Lost manuals uncovered in Prague explain the operation and encryption system of a mysterious Nazi machine used during World War II.

The files include operating instructions for the SG-41, encryption rules and key tables used during the closing weeks of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’re trying to break the German Enigma machine. … It’s the greatest encryption device in history, and the Germans use it for all major communications. If the Allies broke Enigma—well, this would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The MIT Media Lab and two bitcoin experts have unveiled a prototype encryption system that lets you share it with a third party ...