WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

An electromechanical marvel called the Bombe decrypted thousands of WWII messages.

Machine Enigma and its coding system were designed and patented for both civil and military service by a German engineer Arthur Scherbius in February 1918. It was a cipher machine based on rotating ...

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.

Tributes have been paid to Second World War Bletchley Park codebreaker Ruth Bourne, who has died at the age of 98. Ms Bourne, from High Barnet in north London, worked as a Bombe machine operator and ...

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