Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine has a fascinating history and unique workings. This animation delves ...

World War II may have ended decades ago, but its secrets continue to surface in the most unexpected ways. From hidden air raid shelters to long-lost warships and secret military bases, this video ...

Enigma Machine International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine and the related role of Alan Turing.

Rejewski invented a machine called cyclometer that did it mechanically. He said of it: The process of cataloguing with a cyclometer was laborious and took over a year, but when it was ready, obtaining ...

The Enigma machine is an electromechanical device used to encrypt military messages during World War II. Initially invented as a prototype by Arthur Scherbius in the early 1920s, the Enigma machine ...

Once peace returned, the only woman to work in Hut 8 – set up to crack the German Enigma code – avoided the limelight and hardly ever spoke of what she did there. Now, though, Joan, who died ...

And what no-one realised at the time: England and the US had already invented rotor machines before the war that were more secure than Enigma: in England it was the Typex, and in the US the SIGABA.

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[see-also] The Germans invented Enigma machines towards the end of the First World War, which were then adopted by various militaries worldwide.