Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

The story of breaking the unbreakable German Enigma Code by Alan Turing during WWII. Narrated by Keith Morrison of "Dateline," the breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the ...

Before we all had what are essentially little powerful computers in our pockets at the ready to solve any problem via search engines and AI, analog machines combined with pen-and-paper math was the go ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them. Born in London in 1912, he was trained as a ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney ...

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...

A play about the life of mathematician and World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing is set to open in the autumn before touring the country. Breaking the Code, based on the book Alan Turing, The Enigma, ...

The breaking of Germany's top-secret Enigma Code at Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom was one of World War II's biggest secrets, alongside the construction of the atomic bombs. Some historians ...