One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 99. Ms Bourne, who ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

A collection of rare scientific papers written by mathematician, computer scientist and Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for a record £465,400 (€544,400) at auction in Lichfield, UK.

An extremely rare and operational Nazi Enigma encryption machine, famously cracked by Allied codebreakers during World War II, has sold for nearly half a million euros in Paris, double its expected ...

Julia Parsons, of Forest Hills, was a 20-year-old college student at Carnegie Tech in December 1941."The news of Pearl Harbor came over the radio, and I was so shocked. I had no idea where Pearl ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During WWII, an elite team of British codebreakers, including Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman, were tasked with cracking one of the most complex ...

Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 99. Ms Bourne, who grew up in Birmingham but lived High Barnet in north London, worked as ...