Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created -- the Enigma machine -- may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the German romantic poets at ...

Police suspect that a ransom note offering the return of a stolen Enigma machine may contain coded clues as the whereabouts of the historical artefact. Enigma was used by the Germans in the second ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

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

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An Enigma machine, used by the German military to send secret codes during World War II, beat expectations at auction by selling for more than $232,000. The codes sent by these machines were famously ...

"The Imitation Game" helped make World War II code breaker Alan Turing a household name. But for all the attention he has gotten for breaking Nazi Germany's Enigma code, the British mathematician ...

Alan Turing’s lost notebook, in which he worked on the foundations of modern computer science, was sold for a whopping $1,025,000 at the Fine Books & Manuscripts Sale at Bonhams, which took place ...

Julia Parsons with her service photo. Pittsburgh-native Julia Parsons wasn’t able to talk about her work code-breaking German messages during World War II for decades because her work was top secret.

World War II British mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing. A 56-page handwritten notebook belonging to World War II Nazi code-breaker Alan Turing sold for more than $1 million at auction Monday ...

If you’re feeling flush this week, then perhaps instead of buying a second Bugatti you might consider picking up this lightly used Enigma Machine. These devices, the scourge of the Allies in World War ...