PUPILS were given a crash course on the code-breaking effort that helped Britain win the war during a school workshop day. The pupils from Hamstel Junior School, in Hamstel Road, Southend, were ...

The 'untouched' Lorenz SZ42 machine was introduced by the Germans in 1942 after the Bletchley Park codebreakers led by Alan Turing cracked the Enigma. The Lorenz was even harder to decipher than the ...

The Enigma machine is the most well-known encryption tool used by German forces in World War II, mostly because it was so famously cracked by the Allies to great effect. Like many hackers, [christofer ...

A rare surviving Enigma machine that almost undid the heroic efforts of the Bletchley Park codebreakers in World War Two is tipped to sell for £100,000. The German machines had three rotors, each with ...

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Two codebreakers who worked at Bletchley Park and helped to end the Second World War have celebrated their 100th birthdays together. Gwenfron Picken and Kath Morris worked in the iconic huts and ...

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Behind Paddington Station, underneath a bridge by the canal stands a rectangle of black, perforated, aluminium panels, through which an LED display shows lines of ever-changing words. This is London's ...