So began one of the most exciting periods of Enigma code-breaking. Even in 1940 Bletchley had had some success in breaking Enigma keys used by the German navy. It soon became clear that the best ...

Through genius and brutal hard work, an international effort led by British code-breakers cracked the infamous Enigma code. Any communications that weren’t understood during the war were ...

LONDON — An “Enigma” encrypting machine used to send coded military messages from Nazi Germany during World War II is going up for sale in London. Auction house Bonhams says the machine ...

The machine semi-automates the process of identifying and cataloging the outcomes of every possible piece of Enigma code produced in ... the 26 letters of the alphabet. A sender would enter ...

The British had broken their first Enigma code as early as the German invasion of Poland and had intercepted virtually every message sent through the occupation of Holland and France. On July 9 ...

Alan Turing and an army of codebreakers took years to crack the Enigma code during the second world ... above the keyboard that also displays the alphabet. Type in a letter and a different letter ...

But every second mattered in times of war, and the cracking of the Enigma code was a pivotal moment. “To be able to crack it—it took them months, more than a year—but to be able actually to ...

The language is known as “linear B” and it predates the Greek alphabet and so most historians agreed it was probably a separate language altogether. However, decoders who had worked on cracking the ...