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Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer ... managed to break the Germans' seemingly impregnable Enigma encoding machine, was classified. Now, through works such as Station ...

The violinist has created music based on the mathematics used to crack the Enigma code during the Second World War.

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 ...

A new housing estate in Derbyshire has been named in honour of a World War Two codebreaker who once lived there. The 38 homes in Sandiacre stand on the site of a house owned by Rolf Noskwith who ...

And what no-one realised at the time: England and the US had already invented rotor machines before the war that were more secure than Enigma: in England it was the Typex, and in the US the SIGABA.

Scientists working at The University of Manchester have shone new light on the Enigma machine used by the German military in World War Two and cracked by Alan Turing and his team of code breakers at ...

HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEWS RELEASE The Los Alamos Historical Society is pleased to announce its upcoming lecture, a free event ...

the enigma machine was invented in 1918 by arthur scherbius in berlin, it was, at the time a great way to encode messages, well, until it got beat. but now you can make one out of paper.

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 ...

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 ...