The Enigma@home project uses a distributed volunteer computing network to crack Nazi codes from the 1940s. You can donate your spare PC processing power to dozens of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. World War II ended in Europe on May 8, 1945. However, the war would've probably lasted longer if it weren't for one mathematician ...

One of the world’s earliest cryptographic machines, the Enigma, is on show at the Cryptography Research stand. Owned by the company’s president and chief scientist Paul Kocher, this original naval ...

The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing. While ...

A pair of rare Enigma machines used in the Spanish Civil War has been given to the head of GCHQ, Britain's communications intelligence agency. The machines - only recently discovered in Spain - fill ...

A rare 1944 four-rotor M4 Enigma cipher machine, considered one of the hardest challenges for the Allies to decrypt, has sold at a Christie's auction for £347,250 ($437,955). The winning bid for the ...

Scientists say they are a step closer to cracking, what researchers have dubbed, the 'enigma code' of the common cold virus. Scientists at the Universities of York, Leeds, and Helsinki say they are a ...