The names of Alan Turing and the Enigma encryption machine have grown inextricably linked over the years, owing to Turing’s contribution to British decryption efforts during World War II. It’s ...

But as the war drew to a close, the Germans began to destroy these machines to keep them out of Allied hands. [Photos: German WWII Base Discovered on Arctic Island] Many Enigma machines that did ...

Another image shows Petty Officer Norman Rose, who was involved in the capture of an intact Enigma machine from a stricken German U-boat while he was serving on the HMS Bulldog. Pictures showing ...

But it’s also a big question mark for where encryption goes from here on. The Enigma machine, with its three rotating rotors and a labyrinthine plugboard, was Nazi Germany’s pride. It was ...

(SSPL/Getty Images) Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park.

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[Craig], a member of the London Meccano Club, is demonstrating his model Enigma machine using this system for all of its parts and adding some electricity to make the circuitry work as well.