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HSDC’s Havant Campus recently embarked on an extracurricular trip to Bletchley Park, the centre of Allied code-breaking ...
Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine has a fascinating history and unique workings. This animation delves into its mechanisms and significance. Further topics explored include: - ...
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 ...
Lost amongst recent news from the Middle East were reports about the auctioning of documents written by WWII Bletchley Park ...
Uncover the secret WWII codebreaking sites (and the quiet geniuses) who helped win the war from sheds, farms and manor houses.
Alan Turing, the 'Father of modern computing,' born on June 23, 1912, revolutionized technology with his Turing machine ...
WWII German Enigma I Cipher Machine (c. 1943). Courtesy RR Auctions. Another artifact, estimated at $10,000, is a Navy ensign flag that flew from an American ship on D-Day.
Powered by an electromechanical device, Enigma scrambled letters using a trio of rotors, producing a continuously shifting cipher. Pressing a key on the machine illuminated a different, randomized ...
The U.S. antisubmarine task force captured the Nazi submarine along with its crew, technology, encryption codes and a working Enigma cipher machine.
(MENAFN- Swissinfo) Before the Second World War, Switzerland had no experience of cryptography. Nonetheless, a group of mathematicians and engineers started work on their own cipher machine in the ...