[Sam Greydanus] created a neural network that can encode and decode messages just as Enigma did. For those who don’t know, the Enigma machine was most famously used by the Germans during World War II ...

In choosing a basic set-up for the machine, there was a choice from the 60 possible wheel orders, the 17,576 ring-settings for each wheel order, and over 150 million million stecker-pairings (allowing ...

British mathematician Alan Turing designed the curiously named Bombe machine during the early stages of World War II. A forerunner to the computer, the Bombe was able to rapidly intercept messages, ...

Wartime code breaking has become a popular theme running through today’s films. It is a key plot device in this year’s Oscar-winning “A Beautiful Mind,” in which Nobel laureate mathematician John Nash ...

An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.

The Enigma machine is perhaps one of the most legendary devices to come out of World War II. The Germans used the ingenious cryptographic device to hide their communications from the Allies, who in ...