Rare notebooks of Alan Turing’s unpublished code-breaking work during the Second World War have been saved for the nation ...

On May 9, 1941, after U-110 was crippled by British depth charges, its crew abandoned ship, unknowingly setting the stage for a pivotal intelligence victory. The crew of HMS Bulldog, seizing the rare ...

The World War II German Enigma encoding machine is something of an icon in engineering circles not just for its mechanical ingenuity but for the work of the wartime staff at Bletchley Park in ...

Typex was, like the German Enigma machine, based on rotors ... and has been mentioned in older histories of the World War II intelligence war. The same is true for the sad tale of Naval Cypher No. 3, ...

At the end of World War II, the Germans ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Around the same time, Churchill ordered all Enigma cipher machines destroyed. Add a few decades, neglect the ...

Z. It’s wired within so that when a button is pressed on a keyboard—“A”, for instance—an electric current passes through the rotor’s “A” point ...

However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins ... explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its ...

Here are six mistakes you can spot in WW2 movies. Outright theft! The British captured the first Enigma cipher machine, not the Americans as in U-571 U-571, starring Matthew McConaughey and Harvey ...

the historical site where British Intelligence cracked German codes during WW2. You have to find your drink combination on Enigma machines, looking for clues and hints around the bar. Codes are ...