The Germans had been using a typewriter-like machine to encrypt their communications. They called it Enigma and were sure the code was unbreakable. The British were determined to prove them wrong.

The Royal Navy captured German U-boat U-110 on May 9, 1941 in the North Atlantic, recovering an Enigma machine, its cipher keys, and code books that allowed codebreakers to read German signal traffic ...

Only One Enigma Code Has Never Been Broken Enigma was cracked in World War II, but one message was never solved.

Online codebreaking enthusiasts working to solve a series of German World War II ciphers have cracked the second of three codes. Thousands of users around the world have joined the M4 Project, using ...

The Enigma Machine does just this. The Enigma Machine tasks you with a simulation of entering a rogue AI's "dreamscape" and finding the hidden code to terminate it.

The Enigma machine is the most well-known encryption tool used by German forces in World War II, mostly because it was so famously cracked by the Allies to great effect. Like many hackers ...

How breaking Enigma changed history The Germans believed the codes sent between Enigma machines were unbreakable.

Dermot Turing, who has written several books about Bletchley Park and its code-breakers—including his uncle Alan—has now written about the other side of communications security. Why did both the ...

The U.S. antisubmarine task force captured the Nazi submarine along with its crew, technology, encryption codes and a working Enigma cipher machine.