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Book review: The Theory That Would Not Die

A few months ago, Autonomy founder and CEO Mike Lynch sold his company to HP for £7.1 billion. Back in 2000, when he... Read more

2 November, 2011

Bletchley Park Trust gets £4.6m lottery grant

...of code-breaking Huts 1, 3, and 6, where the majority of Enigma code deciphering and translation was performed. "It's still a race against... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Queen unveils Bletchley memorial

...will see the rebuilt Colossus and Turing Bombe machines used in the Enigma code-breaking process. The BBC on Friday said the Queen visited with... Read more

15 July, 2011
BrainFire 1.21

BrainFire 1.21

...memory skills - wherever you are. Fire your brain. -------------------------------------------- Eight Games are included: Enigma Code Missing Letters Code Basic Math Algebra Missing Operators Estimation Logic Light... Read more

25 August, 2010

Police call code-breakers to crack Enigma riddle

...Enigma machines were used during the Second World War to create the Enigma code -- messages used by the German army. Bletchley Park was at this... Read more

13 September, 2000 by Will Knight

Enigma thief will be found, says Bletchley director

The head of the WW2 code-cracking facility says the 'mastermind' behind the theft will be hunted down Read more

11 August, 2003 by Andrew Donoghue

Enigma code machine swiped from Bletchley Park museum

...secret base at which Britain's top cryptanalysts broke the fiendishly complicated Enigma code used by the Germans to transmit war-time communications. Identical Enigma... Read more

3 April, 2000 by Will Knight

Distributed computing cracks Enigma code

An open source application has broken an encrypted message from World War II, and wants your help to finish the job Read more

27 February, 2006 by Graeme Wearden
Bletchley Park faces bleak future

Bletchley Park faces bleak future

Britain owed much of its success in breaking the Enigma code to Polish mathematicians, who managed to reconstruct the Enigma machine and... Read more

13 May, 2008 by Richard Thurston

Turing apology campaign: "public announcement shortly"

...in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi Enigma code and told us how to tell whether a machine could think... Read more

10 September, 2009
Bletchley Park: The preservation challenge

Bletchley Park: The preservation challenge

...was built in 1940 to house the codebreakers working on deciphering the Enigma code, used to encrypt WWII German military communications Read more

11 September, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Gates rejects birthplace of modern computing

...of a series of machines to automate the decryption of the German Enigma code. This culminated in the first programmable computer Colussus I. Large added... Read more

11 August, 2003 by Andrew Donoghue

Anti-spam tricks block the blind

...problem posed in 1950 by the English mathematician and World War II "Enigma" code breaker Alan Turing. Turing's controversial hypothesis was that a machine... Read more

2 July, 2003 by Paul Festa

Man charged with Enigma machine theft

A man will appear in court Monday charged with stealing the historic Enigma code machine from a British wartime museum, following a suitably cloak and... Read more

20 November, 2000 by Will Knight

Ransom negotiations for WWII code machine begin

...are responding rationally. We're confident that they have the machine." The Enigma code was used during the war to encrypt secret messages between U... Read more

9 October, 2000 by Will Knight

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