The release of the film, The Imitation Game, about the life and work of Alan Turing, inspired the Guardian to publish this description of how the German encryption device worked—and why, like ...

Despite the influence that Turing's work has on modern computing, the film narrows its focus on his recruitment by the British Navy during World War II. He's been tasked to crack the Enigma -- an ...

His official job involves living on an isolated mountaintop. But when he's at home, Reid Haroldsen's hard at work constructing one of the greatest mysteries in modern history.

Our ability to decode their Enigma-written messages helped shorten the war considerably. I had seen these machines before, but I never knew how they actually worked. So I asked one of the NSA staffers ...

The codebreakers were able to fully understand the workings of Enigma and the Lorenz code create machines to break them at a time when the principles of computing only existed in theory.

They were a focus of the Oscar-nominated film "The Imitation Game." And one of the largest collections of German Enigma machines is on display in Natick.

A rare Enigma machine — a German gadget that encoded secret messages during World War II — is up for auction. The device is unique, even among Enigma machines. That's because it has a German ...

An Enigma machine, used by the German military to send secret codes during World War II, sold for more than $232,000.