Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created -- the Enigma machine -- may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the German romantic poets at ...

Police suspect that a ransom note offering the return of a stolen Enigma machine may contain coded clues as the whereabouts of the historical artefact. Enigma was used by the Germans in the second ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

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BLETCHLEY PARK, England -- During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and ...

Alan Turing was a British code-breaker whose work is often credited with cracking the German Enigma code and helping end World War II. Cambridge University called him one of the greatest minds of the ...

World War II Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing will be the face of the UK's new £50 note, the Bank of England has announced. Speaking at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, governor of the ...

Alan Turing, a mathematician and code breaker who deciphered German World War II messages, will appear on Britain's new 50 pound note. The Bank of England made the announcement Monday that Turing, who ...

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. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...

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