A global team of computer users has cracked one of the remaining World War II messages encoded by the Nazi Enigma machine. Noah Adams talks to Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science ...

During World War II, the Germans used an encryption device called the Enigma, which Polish and English mathematicians worked tirelessly to crack.

Police call code-breakers to crack Enigma riddle Authorities turn to code breakers to help find stolen code machine Written by Will Knight, Contributor Sept. 13, 2000 at 6:04 a.m. PT ...

But almost as captivating is a complex hunk of electromagnetic machinery known as ”the Bombe” — which Turing and a group of British proto-hackers used to break the Nazis’ Enigma code ...

They are credited with developing the bombe – the electro-mechanical calculator that helped crack the Enigma and that many call the precursor of the modern computer.

The Enigma code, once deemed unbreakable by Nazi Germany and famously cracked by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park, would pose little challenge to modern computing power, say technology ...

More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. The M4 Project ...

The Enigma@home project uses a distributed volunteer computing network to crack Nazi codes from the 1940s.

code-breaker or message mate? Have fun sending cryptic messages to your friends and colleagues with the Desert Rats Enigma Machine, from Digital Jesters. Developed as part of the Desert Rats vs ...

WARSAW: It was hailed a masterstroke of British code-breaking that helped to defeat Hitler and save the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers.