The enigma code was, like our crossword clues, devised to disguise the message contained in the clue. We do it with wordplay, the Nazis did it by scrambling letters mechanically. The enigma ...

The disastrous Dieppe raid during World War Two was designed as a decoy by James Bond writer Ian Fleming so German refugee commandos could secretly pinch the Nazis' new Enigma coding machine, a ...

The rare surviving example of the improved M4 cipher machine is going under the hammer at auctioneers Bonhams, of Knightsbridge, London.

An Enigma encryption machine used by the German army in the Second World War, one of few surviving examples according to the Dorotheum, is on offer at the Viennese auction house on 4 June with a ...

A computer scientist who campaigned to save Bletchley Park is to be married after her fiancé proposed using the Enigma code.

A computer scientist who campaigned to save Bletchley Park is to be married after her fiancé proposed using the Enigma code.

Class is in session, folks. Today's lesson: Benedict Cumberbatch, that Doctor of Strange and Professor of Awesomeness, discusses the Nazis' Enigma code during World War II, and the work of Alan ...