Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for centuries. However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins strived to ...

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 ...

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

The Imitation Game has recently been showing in cinemas. The main character is Alan Turing (1912 to 1954), a genius mathematician who created the mathematical model for computers around 1940 and made ...

Rather than producing a simple software simulation, they implemented the entire codebreaking logic directly in hardware using ...