PITTSBURGH – Carnegie Mellon University will hire a researcher from the Library of Congress to help it decode a collection that includes two WWII German Enigma machines. The university wants to ...

Robert Welsh approaches the inner workings of the notorious German Enigma machine with the same innate curiosity that drove him as a young boy to disassemble assorted gizmos to see how they functioned ...

In the 1930s and 40s, mathematician Alan Turing and other Allied cryptologists devoted monumental efforts to break the German encryption machine, the Enigma, which Nazis used to send secret messages ...