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Police Call Code-breakers To Crack Enigma Riddle

News Bletchley Park was at this time the location of Station X, the code-breaking unit which succeeded in cracking Enigma code. The machine was taken from the Second World War museum Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire.

[September 13, 2000, 14:04]

Code Breakers Secrets Revealed

News The documents will show that a machine known as "Colossus II", with basic programmable capabilities, was being used at British code-breaking headquarters, Station X in Bletchley Park, to decrypt high-level tactical communications encrypted using...

[October 2, 2000, 15:11]

Modern PCs To Challenge WWII Codebreaker

News Colossus computers were built during WWII at British codebreaking centre Bletchley Park, where the National Museum of Computing is now housed. Sale and his team have spent 14 years rebuilding a Mark II Colossus, which is now installed at Bletchley...

[November 15, 2007, 14:09]

Enigma Code Machine Swiped From Bletchley Park Museum

News One of only three existing Enigma machines -- used by the Nazis to encrypt messages during the second world war -- has been stolen from the code-breaking museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Bletchley Park was the location of Station X, the...

[April 3, 2000, 12:07]

Bletchley Park Calls For Aid

News Bletchley Park directors and security experts discuss the history of the UK WWII code-breaking centre, which needs funds to stop the buildings falling apart, and to preserve the National Museum of Computing.

[September 12, 2008, 16:48]

Bletchley Park Campaign Makes Appeal To US

News Bletchley Park is famous for being the nerve centre of UK code-breaking operations during the Second World War, and for being the home of the world's first programmable computer, Colossus. A campaign will be launched on Tuesday to ask US tech...

[September 8, 2008, 1:00]

Distributed Computing Cracks Enigma Code

News Cryptologists at Bletchley Park in the UK managed to break Enigma through their development of early computers, led by Alan Turing, and also by using intelligence to cut down the number of possible set-ups.

[February 27, 2006, 16:30]