This is a completely fantastic look at how the Enigma Machine works. Jared Owen constructed a 3D model of the German cipher ...

Jared Owen constructed a 3D model of the German cipher device and clearly walks the viewer through how the electricity flows through the machine to scramble and unscramble secret messages. When ...

This project was inspired by a wonderful family trip to Bletchley Park, the historic site of Britain's World War Two codebreakers. It's an awesome place for families, with hands-on exhibits and lots ...

Two people can watch the exact same machine respond to a question and reach completely different conclusions about what just happened. One assumes anything convincing enough must be simulating a mind ...

A 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing prompted President Reagan to reveal U.S. intelligence capabilities, inadvertently exposing that America could decrypt messages from Swiss encryption machines used ...

It's April 14, 1986. The La Belle discotheque in West Berlin, a popular hangout for US soldiers, has just suffered a devastating bombing that injured over 200 people and killed 3. President Ronald ...

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...

If you’re someone with a passing interest in a) cryptography, b) World War II, c) cool machines or d) all of the above, you’ve probably heard of the Enigma machine. That machine remains perhaps the ...

A C/C++ implementation of the historic Enigma machine — the cipher device used by Nazi Germany during World War II. The project relies solely the core mechanics of the original machine, including ...

SG-41 cipher machine. Credit: Eugen Antal / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Researchers in Prague have found the lost manuals for the SG-41, a secret World War II Nazi machine that had remained poorly understood for ...