Germany's armed forces believed their Enigma-encrypted communications were impenetrable to the Allies. But thousands of codebreakers - based in wooden huts at Britain's Bletchley Park - had other ...

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 ...

BLETCHLEY Park was the central site for Britain’s codebreakers during the Second World War, and is now earmarked for a new generation of code crackers. It famously housed Alan Turing and the team he ...

Codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who worked alongside Alan Turing to crack the German's Enigma code, has died aged 98. After joining the Wrens (Women's Royal Naval Service), Ms Bourne, from High Barnet in ...

Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity. Dr Turing, who was pivotal in breaking the Enigma code, ...

Second World War code-breaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon for a 61-year-old conviction for homosexual activity. Dr Turing, who was pivotal in breaking the Enigma code, ...

A set of cogs from the Second World War Enigma code-breaking machine has been discovered after languishing in a cupboard for up to 30 years. The three rotors were found at the Royal Navy training ...

Codebreaking Second World War veterans smiled as they reunited at the scene of their wartime service in Bletchley Park, near Milton Keynes. British codebreakers, including Alan Turing, were based at ...

There is a picture of the actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley in The Imitation Game, the film about the code-breakers at Bletchley Park, that you've probably seen a few times. It shows ...

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