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

Many know the Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, and Mosquito as the ‘A-listers’ of British aircraft of the Second World War.

Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed ...

In 1939, a group of geniuses were working at Bletchley Park to try and solve the German Enigma code. They made breakthroughs within a year and by 1942 they had it cracked. The achievement of this is ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. That argument collapses under even minimal scrutiny. D-Day itself was ...

Antiques Roadshow presenter Fiona Bruce was left stunned as she came across an item that helped "change the war". In 2010, when the Antiques Roadshow arrived at Bletchley Park, it found itself in one ...

Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military communication forever.

The project was carried out by Erica Jiang, Kelvin Resch and Isabella Frank as part of Cornell’s ECE 5760 course. The work was later highlighted by the technology website Hackaday. The achievement ...

The German military had adapted the commercial Enigma cipher machine, first sold in 1923, into a more complex system with extra settings and components. Each day brought a new key, meaning that ...

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 ...