ITHACA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A challenge with trillions of potential combinations yet only one right answer may seem unsolvable. The challenge the Allied Forces faced in World War II was cracking ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before we all had what are essentially little powerful computers in our pockets at the ready to solve any problem via search engines and AI, analog machines combined with pen-and-paper math was the go ...

The battle against the ‘unbreakable’ Nazi Engima code shortened World War 2 by up to two years - and paved the way for the computer age. But while films such as The Imitation Game hand all the credit ...

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 ...

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It was Germany’s most guarded secret—until a team of mathematicians and spies shattered it. The Enigma story begins at Bletchley Park. Thousands of drivers have licenses revoked Melania Trump letter ...