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 ...

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

これほど複雑な暗号機の解読方法をコンピュータを使わずに見つけ出すために、ポーランドや英国、それに米国の数学者らは、人手を使うよりもはるかに高速にEnigmaの仕組みをシミュレートし、考えられ得る解法を調べるための機械をそれぞれ独自に考案 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...