Hugh Whitemore’s play about the life and times of Alan Turing has been doing the rounds since 1986, and yet it was a show I ...

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 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 ...

Keeping war plans secret is vital to save troops’ lives and avoid setbacks. However, the Allies had a trick up their sleeve when fighting the Axis powers. The Allied forces crossed the English Channel ...

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While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

The Enigma code, once deemed unbreakable by Nazi Germany and famously cracked by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park, would pose little challenge to modern computing power, say technology ...

Barbara Southerland has finally been recognized at 99 for her secret wartime work for the famed Enigma codebreakers at Bletchley Park — 80 ...

A 1944 Enigma cipher machine has auctioned for £305,200 in London. The M4 machine was in wonderful condition. Read more here.