Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret ...

The German Enigma device has always been a fascinating ... for his Enigma that really gives you a feel for how the original machine worked. Obviously it’s considerably simplified from the ...

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 ...

To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Bletchley Park’s research historian, Dr David Kenyon, reveals how staff reacted to ...

This four-wheel Enigma machine was used by the German forces during the second world war to send coded messages. Many machines of this type were used on the U-Boat submarines sent out to disrupt ...

The Enigma machine, first patented in 1919, was after various improvements adopted by the German Navy in 1926, the Army in 1928, and the Air Force in 1935. It was also used by the Abwehr ...

The Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed ...

In the 1950s, mathematician Alan Turing — best remembered by many as the cryptography genius who led the British effort to ...

An emotionally fragile code-breaker is called back to the scene of his mental breakdown when the Enigma machine fails to crack the new German code. However, these U-boat cryptograms are not the ...

This four-wheel Enigma machine was used by the German forces during the second world war to send coded messages. Many machines of this type were used on the U-Boat submarines sent out to disrupt ...

This is an Enigma 1 machine. It was used by the German army and air force to send secret coded messages between head quarters and units in the field. Skilful work by Polish intelligence officers ...