The Imitation Game has recently been showing in cinemas. The main character is Alan Turing (1912 to 1954), a genius mathematician who created the mathematical model for computers around 1940 and made ...

The Imitation Game,” set during World War II, has great moments even when not sticking to the facts. The film follows ...

Code- and cipher-breaking have been in operation for centuries. However, cryptanalysis – the art of deciphering encoded messages – took on a new importance during WW2 as British boffins strived to ...

Artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT could crack the infamous Enigma code in minutes, experts say. This feat once demanded a global team of experts during World War II. The Enigma code was a ...

On June 4, 1944, U.S. forces were able to capture a German submarine off the African coast because they had broken the Enigma code and learned a sub was in the vicinity. On the eve of D-Day, the U.S.

Rolf Noskwith was studying maths at Cambridge University when approached to join the codebreaking team A new housing estate in Derbyshire has been named in honour of a World War Two codebreaker who ...

The Enigma device used by the Axis powers was an electro-mechanical machine that resembled a typewriter, with three rotors that each had 26 possible positions, a reflector that sent the signal back ...

Keeping war plans secret is vital to save troops’ lives and avoid setbacks. However, the Allies had a trick up their sleeve when fighting the Axis powers. The Allied forces crossed the English Channel ...

PARENTS MAY believe that their offspring are wasting their time with X-Boxes, but British foreign secretary William Hague believes that some may hold the key in the daily battle against cyber-hackers.

This week shows the Allies first attempts to break the German Enigma code. Meanwhile, the German war economy shows some flaws ...