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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]
Police Call Code-breakers To Crack Enigma Riddle
News Bletchley was the wartime headquarters of allied code breakers who deciphered Nazi's messages encoded with Enigma machines. Enigma machines were used during the Second World War to create the Enigma code -- messages used by the German army.
[September 13, 2000, 14:04]
Distributed Computing Cracks Enigma Code
Talkback Seeing as how the War is over, did anyone think of just searching the German historical archives instead of recruiting lots of PCs to crank Global Warming up a notch ;-)?
[February 28, 2006, 7:50]
Distributed Computing Cracks Enigma Code
News More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt to break three...
[February 27, 2006, 16:30]
Ransom Negotiations For WWII Code Machine Begin
News The Enigma code was used during the war to encrypt secret messages between U-boats and military command. Enigma machines were used to simplify the perplexing process of enciphering and deciphering the Enigma code.
[October 9, 2000, 15:04]
Enigma Thief Will Be Found, Says Bletchley Director
News The mastermind behind the theft of a WW2 German Enigma encoding machine will be "tracked to the end", according to the head of the code-cracking centre from which the device was stolen. I know the officers involved and in a weird way it's like the...
[August 11, 2003, 13:35]
Recognising Bletchley Park's Unsung Heroines
News On occasion, they operated the codebreaking machines and played a key part in cracking the codes sent from the German Enigma machines. Enigma was the name of the main cipher used by the German Luftwaffe.
[March 12, 2008, 11:08]
Bletchley Park Faces Bleak Future
Articles Recipients of the code who knew the settings could enter the enciphered code into another Enigma machine to receive the plain text, letter by letter. Despite the British starting to crack the Enigma code, Germany had another trick up its sleeve...
[May 13, 2008, 17:53]
Man Charged With Enigma Machine Theft
News 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 dagger investigation by authorities. Dennis Yates, who has been charged with stealing the Enigma...
[November 20, 2000, 12:09]
The NASA Hacker: Scapegoat Or Public Enemy?
Talkback Scapegoat - UK has had all our secrets since they retained instead of discarding some ENIGMA code machines.
[January 7, 2006, 18:39]
News Burst: Windows CE Flaw Gives Up NT Passwords
News It's basically like basing the enigma code on the word 'Adolf' backwards. Windows CE programmer Jeff Zamora has revealed that when a CE device saves and supposedly "encrypts" a user's NT password, it simply applies a very basic mathematical...
[November 18, 1999, 11:14]
Hackers Rule OK
News Alan Turing and other cryptanalyts apply the scientist's theory of The Universal Turing Machine at the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park to crack the German military's legendary Enigma code.
[December 27, 1999, 6:05]
Gates Rejects Birthplace Of Modern Computing
News Large said the overall plan is to turn Bletchley into a communications heritage park, building on its innovative history, which includes being the site of mathematical genius Alan Turing's development of a series of machines to automate the...
[August 11, 2003, 10:00]
Microsoft Defends WinCE-NT Password Flaw
News It's basically like basing the enigma code on the word 'Adolf' backwards. This is Pegasus backwards, the original code name for Windows CE. Microsoft has denied that the security hole in Windows CE 2.x that makes it relatively simple to capture a...
[November 19, 1999, 17:18]
Code Breakers Secrets Revealed
News It has been suggested by some historians that the efforts of the Bletchley Park cryptographers, breaking Lorenz and the Enigma code, may have helped shorten the war by several years. The documents will show that a machine known as "Colossus II...
[October 2, 2000, 15:11]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Take the story that an ad-hoc network of volunteers are busy decoding some old and uncracked Kriegsmarine Enigma messages from U-boats in But that doesn't matter: it's within the capability of enthusiasts to write some client code to attack the...
[March 3, 2006, 17:00]
Xbox Mod Chip Delivers 'homebrew Software'
News The makers of the Xtender, the Enigma and the Messiah mod chips did not respond to email requests for comment. The problem is, both scenes require the same thing: to be able to run (recordable CDs or DVDs) using unsigned code.
[May 29, 2002, 14:34]
Tech Heroes In Line For 'Greatest Briton' Award
News The German military coded their messages using Enigma machines, which were thought to be totally unbreakable. To make this possible, in 1990 Berners-Lee started work on creating the first World Wide Web server -- "httpd", the first Web browser, the...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
Anti-spam Tricks Block The Blind
News Efforts to create tests aimed at distinguishing humans from machines go back decades, with the most famous formulation of the problem posed in 1950 by the English mathematician and World War II "Enigma" code breaker Alan Turing.
[July 2, 2003, 13:28]
The 'fastest Browser On Earth'?
News Sutton Designs markets a browser called Enigma for Windows 95/98, which the company claims is fast, lean and "free, unlike Opera. Microsoft .Net User Experience 1.0 isn't slated until 2001, when Microsoft makes the new interface available as an...
[June 27, 2000, 10:03]
