As the Nazi party rose to power in Germany, the German military made significant use of the commercial Enigma cipher device, which went on sale beginning in 1923. To make it more secure, they modified ...

Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as ...

War rarely turns on one person alone, yet certain names continue to surface when the history of World War II is revisited.

Bletchley Park was the home of British war-time codebreaking but it's not just a historical curiosity and still has relevance today; even some of Facebook's engineering breakthroughs can be traced all ...