World War II British mathematician and code-breaker Alan Turing. A 56-page handwritten notebook belonging to World War II Nazi code-breaker Alan Turing sold for more than $1 million at auction Monday ...

Explore how British codebreakers at Bletchley Park tackled the almost impossible task of cracking the Nazi U-boat Enigma codes.

Codebreakers' work played a key role in the Allied invasion on D-Day -- and created the world that’s led us to today’s encryption battles. Laura wrote about e-commerce and Amazon, and she occasionally ...

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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 ...

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 ...

LONDON -- A British woman cracked a key component of Germany's top-secret Enigma encoding machine before World War II began, but her supervisors dismissed her theory as too simple, according to a new ...

A legend of British technology and engineering who played a key part in the Second World War effort will be granted a posthumous pardon, the Guardian reports. The UK government has hinted it'll ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- In just a few days, a Pittsburgh woman will be celebrating a major milestone; she'll be 100-years-old! Julia Parsons has committed much of her life to her family, service, and ...

A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a Christie's auction for £347,250 ($437,955). The winning bid for the ...

It was night when three British sailors and a 16-year-old canteen assistant boarded a sinking U-boat off the coast of Egypt. A spotlight shone on them from the HMS Petard, the Royal Navy destroyer ...