One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 98. Ms Bourne, from High Barnet in north London, worked as a Bombe machine operator and ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

In U-571, American sailors capture a German Enigma machine during World War II—but that never happened. The real Enigma codebreakers were British, and their heroic success came months before America ...

If you have ever dreamt of owning a World War II Enigma Machine, a three-rotor cipher machine will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The machine was originally made for the German military in ...