By working this out and filling in the letters, some will form obvious words with letters missing, allowing the codebreaker to fill in the gaps and recover those letters as well. Contact analysis ...

My work registering messages from the Germans and Japanese as part of the code breaking team at Bletchley Park took place eight decades ago now, yet I still count it as the best time of life.

Marjorie Dodsworth was an Enigma codebreaker during World War Two Marjorie Dodsworth's parents died without ever knowing the role she played during World War Two. Mrs Dodsworth has been telling ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. government codebreaker who decrypted secret Soviet communications during the Cold War concluded that Ethel Rosenberg knew about her husband’s activities but “did not ...

In the film, Maz Kanata tells Finn and Rose to find the Master Codebreaker so they can slice their way onto a First Order vessel, only to be apprehended by Canto Bight authorities after only ...

A woman who worked as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War Two has celebrated her 100th birthday. Betty Everest, from Peterborough, marked her birthday on Wednesday surrounded by her ...

Discover the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst who helped bring down gangsters and break up a Nazi spy ring in South America. Her work helped lay the ...

A keen-eyed codebreaker who helped secure Victory in Europe has shared some heartfelt advice to younger generations as she marks a major milestone birthday. Louisa ‘Joan’ Alexander made the ...

Dr Sian Williams investigates the story of the Welsh codebreaker whose naked body was found inside a bag in his bath. Mystery still surrounds how and why Gareth Williams died.

Orders are then transmitted via radio to the bar. The venue is inspired by Bletchley Park, the site where British mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing and his team used to crack German codes ...

To try to break the German naval Engima, Alan Turing invented a machine known as the Banburismus, which the codebreakers used to identify enciphered messages with common elements. This, in turn ...