It was high-tech encryption for an important period of time in the mid-1940s, so perhaps you can forgive us our obsession with the Enigma machine. But did you know that you can make your very own ...

English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science. Photo: Alan Turing with two colleagues and a ...

Over two days (13-14 Nov) The Alan Turing Building played host to a genuine 1941 German Army Enigma machine so it could be X-ray scanned by the Henry Royce Institute. The machine is a basic three ...

Thanks to the relatively high-resolution touch screen, [Mark] was able to develop a user interface for his Enigma that really gives you a feel for how the original machine worked. Obviously it’s ...

Scientists working at The University of Manchester have shone new light on the Enigma machine used by the German military in World War Two and cracked by Alan Turing and his team of code breakers at ...

This is an Enigma 1 machine. It was used by the German army and air force to send secret coded messages between head quarters and units in the field. Skilful work by Polish intelligence officers ...

Turing had previously been involved with the construction of both the Colossus ... explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley ...

This four-wheel Enigma machine was used by the German forces during the second world war to send coded messages. Many machines of this type were used on the U-Boat submarines sent out to disrupt ...