Through the looking glass: Artist Stephanie Rentschler recently unveiled SlimeMoldCrypt, an interactive installation where art meets science by using biology to generate stronger encryption keys.

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 ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

The U.S. Army’s portable encryption machine, the M-209, is lighter than most of the machines here, but at 7 pounds with its case, much heavier than most smartphones. Its major innovation: a groove in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The mechanism known as the Bombe was England’s answer to Germany’s Enigma encryption machine. Bombe electrical data plus human clues allowed Alan ...

The mechanism known as the Bombe was England’s answer to Germany’s Enigma encryption machine. Bombe electrical data plus human clues allowed Alan Turing and others to crack many Enigma messages. In ...