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]
Enigma machine sent to Jeremy Paxman
News Jeremy Paxman got a bit of a shock when he opened his post Tuesday: the UK's top TV journalist was sent the stolen Enigma machine in a parcel, which, according to reports, sat for days waiting to be opened on a Newsnight desk.
[October 18, 2000, 9:13]
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]
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]
Police call code-breakers to crack Enigma riddle
News Police suspect that a ransom note offering the return of a stolen Enigma machine may contain coded clues as the whereabouts of the historical artefact. The author of the note claims to be someone operating on behalf of the new owner of the Enigma...
[September 13, 2000, 14:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog For the next week, you've still got time to get your bids in for a possibly genuine Enigma machine - which at the time of writing was looking a bargain at €25,000. But this enigmatic artist has the true geek gene: I mean, sure, everyone's heard of...
[March 31, 2006, 19:30]
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 machine was taken from Bletchley Park earlier this year. 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...
[October 9, 2000, 15:04]
PEnigma
Downloads This is an emualation of the rotor encryption machine ENIGMA. The simulation is accurate for the generic Wehrmacht 3-rotor enigma as well as for the Navys M4 model. It should be noted that the ENIGMA encryption is by no means secure by todays...
[February 17, 2001, 6:00]
Modern PCs to challenge WWII codebreaker
News Like the famous Enigma cipher machine, the Lorenz creates the random numbers needed to build a robust cipher. Anthony Sale, who heads up the team which rebuilt the Colossus, said that text in German had been encrypted using a Lorenz teleprinter...
[November 15, 2007, 14:09]
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]
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. Turing proved that in theory a machine could be constructed to prove that a mathematical theorem was true, and also argued that it would...
[August 22, 2002, 12:07]
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]
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 gets grant for urgent repairs
News Bletchley Park is famous for the role it played in decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machine, and also for housing the world's first codebreaking supercomputer, Colossus, which cracked the codes used to encipher messages between...
[November 7, 2008, 7:57]
Turing apology campaign: "public announcement shortly"
Blog He laid the foundations of computing, helped break the Nazi Enigma code and told us how to tell whether a machine could think. It may be bad form to flag a news story based on a single tweet, but this one warrants it: It's from @jgrahamc - John...
[September 10, 2009, 20:07]
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]
