At the end of World War II, the Germans ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Around the same time, Churchill ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Add a few decades, neglect the ...

Photo: A four-rotor German Enigma cipher machine made during WW2. This rare machine is thought to have been used in the post-war years for coding Swiss diplomatic traffic. (SSPL/Getty Images ...

The whole story reads like a cold-war era spy thriller, and like many of those novels, it all starts with World War II. As a result ... company that built and sold cipher machines that competed ...

Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works ... extensively during World War II, with a plethora of code and cipher systems fielded ...