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

This is a prototype rotary cipher machine component made by the American inventor Edward Hebern. The badly rusted machine has a steel frame with a keyboard in front, a motor on top, and a cylindrical ...

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 ...

Enigma machines were used by the Nazis to encrypt and decrypt secret military, commercial, and diplomatic information. The post Rare WWII German Enigma machine sells for over $250,000 appeared first ...

If you think about military crypto machines, you probably think about the infamous Enigma machine. However, as [Christos T.] reminds us, there were many others and, in particular, the production of a ...