Using X-ray Computed Tomography (CT), features inside the Enigma’s metal casing were revealed, including the wiring and structure of the rotors that encrypted messages sent using the machine. The CT ...

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 ...

Over two days (13-14 Nov) The Alan Turing Building played host to a genuine 1941 German Army Enigma machine so it could be X-ray scanned by the Henry Royce Institute. The machine is a basic three ...

An Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor cipher machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. Enigma was invented by the German engineer ...

Obviously it’s considerably simplified from the real-world version, but using a stylus to tap the rotors you ... load historical machine configurations, such as how the Enigma aboard the ...

The World War II German Enigma encoding machine is something of an icon in ... with rotary encoders to represent the Enigma rotors and multi-segment alphanumeric displays standing in for the ...