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 ...

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 ...

A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a Christie's auction for £347,250 ($437,955). The winning bid for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Three out of five wheels means they would have needed 60 Bomba machines. The full later war Enigma’s with the full number of wheels and the full plugboard had 158,962,555,217,826,360,000 combinations.

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 ...

If you have ever dreamt of owning a World War II Enigma Machine, a three-rotor cipher machine will be auctioned by Boston-based RR Auction. The machine was originally made for the German military in ...

UK intelligence agency GCHQ has celebrated its centenary year by releasing emulators for famous code cipher and code breakers used in World War II. Last week, GCHQ said on Twitter that the public can ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...