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 ...

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

Alan Turing and his codebreakers assigned values to aligned pairs of letters in two intercepted German messages. Unmatched pairs were given a negative value, matched pairs a positive value. Starting ...

During World War II, British women were factory workers, codebreakers, spies and air raid wardens. How did such roles contribute to the Allies’ victory?

Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 99. Ms Bourne, who grew up in Birmingham but lived High Barnet in north London, worked as ...