A PIECE OF Second World War history came to Blackburn today as a Cambridge University academic brought a genuine Enigma machine to town. The code-cracking device was vital in interpreting Nazi ...

German divers who recently fished an Enigma encryption machine out of the Baltic Sea, used by the Nazis to send coded messages during World War II, handed their rare find over to a museum for ...

The 'untouched' Lorenz SZ42 machine was introduced by the Germans in 1942 after the Bletchley Park codebreakers led by Alan Turing cracked the Enigma. The Lorenz was even harder to decipher than the ...

Crowning achievement of Alan Turing’s codebreakers is now ‘straightforward’, according to computer scientists The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a ...

The Enigma device used by the Axis powers was an electro-mechanical machine that resembled a typewriter, with three rotors that each had 26 possible positions, a reflector that sent the signal back ...

Archive List > Books > An Amazing Wartime Secret by Kennedy McConnell Ken McConnell, veteran of Enigma, taken in 2005 (Kennedy McConnell was an R.A.F. electrical engineer working on the Turing ...

Lost Nazi cipher manuals relating to a code believed to be more advanced than the famous Enigma cipher have been discovered in Prague after more than 80 years. The original wartime manuals for the ...

By 1932, long before the Bletchley Park engagement which is today seen as the epicenter of work on breaking the Enigma code, Rajewski and fellow mathematicians Jerzy Różycki and Henryk Zygalski at the ...

Codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who worked alongside Alan Turing to crack the German's Enigma code, has died aged 98. After joining the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service), Ms Bourne, from High Barnet in ...