IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Edward Hebern of California designed ...

As the June 6 anniversary of D-Day approaches, Boston’s RR Auctions is offering a sale of over 170 autographs and artifacts, with some focus on World War II relics, live on the house’s website through ...

Edward Hebern of California designed this rotor for a cipher machine. Commercial rotary cipher machines would be introduced in the 1920s and 1930s for commercial purposes by several people in several ...

The files include operating instructions for the SG-41, encryption rules and key tables used during the closing weeks of the ...

A team of researchers discovers in Czech archives the original documents of the ‘Schlüsselgerät 41’, a device so secret that even the Allies never fully understood how it worked until now. For decades ...

"Fritz Menzer did not just come up with this machine - he developed other machines. And he also worked on cryptanalysis machines to crack the codes of other countries. There has been no research on ...

Enigma cipher machines have endured in the minds of history buffs and cryptography hobbyists for more than a century, still discovered at dusty French flea markets and dredged up from under beach ...