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 ...

One of the last Enigma coding machines that the Nazis used to send encrypted messages during the Second World War has sold at auction. The device was valued between £50,000 and £70,000 but sold for a ...

If you don't know of Mavis Batey, you should. Her work cracking the Enigma machine's coded messages was crucial to the success of D-Day landings during WWII. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about ...

The story of breaking the unbreakable German Enigma Code by Alan Turing during WWII. Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the ...

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I like serendipity when it happens -- especially when it concerns something as odd as the current head of the National Security Agency and the German World War II encryption device known as the " ...

Only a few of the very top Allied generals were given information from the decrypted messages, and they were instructed to be careful not to act too openly on the intelligence, lest the Germans ...

A historic Enigma cipher machine has been unveiled at Bletchley Park to mark 100 years since it was first purchased and brought to Britain. Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Milton Keynes ...