British codebreakers using modified British Typex cipher machines in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in 1942. Bletchley Park was the British forces' intelligence centre ...

1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British remove a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known to the Allies as Enigma, and then they ...

German divers have stumbled on a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis during World War II — and believe it was tossed into the Baltic Sea from a scuttled vessel. The divers, who w… ...

The teleprinter will join an exhibit on World War II code-breaking. The teleprinter part of a Lorenz cipher machine that was purchased by the National Museum of Computing from eBay for 10 GBP (14. ...

Rare Nazi coding machine bought from British woman on eBay for £9.50 The UK's National Museum of Computing spotted ad last week on the online auction site for the rare WWII-era Lorenz SZ42 cipher ...

While the machine was a marvel, it did have a problem. With certain settings, the machine had a very low cipher period (338 compared to 16,900 for Enigma). This wasn’t just theoretical, either.

SIGABA could be remotely linked up to devices of a similar make — such as the British Combined Cipher Machine — to facilitate covert communication, but that was the only exception.

From Russia with Love. Ian Fleming is the late late late show of literature.Perused at the witching hour, the violent adventures and immoderate amours of James Bond, Agent 007 of the British Secret ...

A mix of old wartime valves and new components were used to construct the machine. By the end of the Second World War, 10 Colossus machines were in action. They cut the time to break codes used by the ...