In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, the Allied forces facing Germany had a problem. While it was easy to intercept German wireless communications, their content was difficult to decipher as ...

Newly revealed documents show that, while breaking Nazi codes, Turing was also building a device that almost changed military ...

As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

Enigma暗号の解読法については、2次大戦前にポーランドの数学者のMarian Rejewskiが研究し、Bombaというシステムを開発しており、Alan TuringとGordon Welchmanはこの研究をベースにしてBombeというシステムを作った。といっても、理論家の両氏が設計を行ったわけでは ...

The Imitation Game has recently been showing in cinemas. The main character is Alan Turing (1912 to 1954), a genius mathematician who created the mathematical model for computers around 1940 and made ...

Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine played a significant role in wartime communications. This video explores how the Enigma Machine works within its historical context, including ...

BUCHAREST – Someone in Romania thought he’d made a fair amount of money when he sold an old typewriter for €100 ($115) at a flea market. He was wrong. The “typewriter” was, in fact, a German Wehrmacht ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A notebook about mathematics and computer science written by Nazi-code breaker Alan Turing, played by actor Benedict Cumberbatch in the Oscar-nominated film "The Imitation Game," ...