A rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis to communicate without interception and translation by opposing nations fetched $106,250 at auction Saturday. The buyer’s identity was not ...
War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited. Alan Turing is one of them..
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! International Spy Museum historian and curator Andrew Hammond provided a tour of the Museum, highlighting the World War II era German Enigma machine ...
This sealogged Nazi machine will undergo restoration. German divers for the environmental group World Wildlife Fund were searching the ocean floor for abandoned nets threatening marine wildlife. What ...
It was night when three British sailors and a 16-year-old canteen assistant boarded a sinking U-boat off the coast of Egypt. A spotlight shone on them from the HMS Petard, the Royal Navy destroyer ...
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Alan Turing was nothing short of a genius, and his work saved scores of soldiers during WWII—only for the world to turn its back on him
The world owes so much to Alan Turing. Without his quick and clever mind, the Allied Forces may never have been able to unravel the impossible messages produced by the German Enigma machine. WWII ...
To many, the Enigma machine is an enigma. But it’s really quite simple. The following is a step-by-step explanation of how it works, from the basics to the full machine. Possibly the greatest ...
When Nazi naval officers tossed their ship’s Enigma encryption machine overboard, they probably thought they were putting the device beyond anyone’s reach. Blissfully unaware that Allied cryptanalysts ...
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