A global team of computer users has cracked one of the remaining World War II messages encoded by the Nazi Enigma machine. Noah Adams talks to Ira Flatow, host of NPR's Talk of the Nation Science ...

But almost as captivating is a complex hunk of electromagnetic machinery known as ”the Bombe” — which Turing and a group of British proto-hackers used to break the Nazis’ Enigma code ...

Police call code-breakers to crack Enigma riddle Authorities turn to code breakers to help find stolen code machine Written by Will Knight, Contributor Sept. 13, 2000 at 6:04 a.m. PT ...

While efforts in Europe focused on Enigma, the outcome of the Pacific War hinged on intercepting and breaking Japanese naval ciphers—most notably the code known as JN-25. This code was a two-step ...

During World War II, the Germans used an encryption device called the Enigma, which Polish and English mathematicians worked tirelessly to crack.

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 ...

The Enigma code, once deemed unbreakable by Nazi Germany and famously cracked by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park, would pose little challenge to modern computing power, say technology ...

WARSAW: It was hailed a masterstroke of British code-breaking that helped to defeat Hitler and save the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers.