UK intelligence agency GCHQ has celebrated its centenary year by releasing emulators for famous code cipher and code breakers used in World War II. Last week, GCHQ said on Twitter that the public can ...

Julia Parsons with her service photo. Pittsburgh-native Julia Parsons wasn’t able to talk about her work code-breaking German messages during World War II for decades because her work was top secret.

Wartime code breaking has become a popular theme running through today’s films. It is a key plot device in this year’s Oscar-winning “A Beautiful Mind,” in which Nobel laureate mathematician John Nash ...

Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered. The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected to the famous ...

One of the Second World War’s most fascinating stories is that of the Allied codebreakers, who deciphered a vast number of German secret messages by decrypting their ingenious ciphering machine, the ...

The Coast Guard is naming the 11th Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) in honor of Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Friedman was a pioneering code-breaker for the Coast Guard during the Prohibition ...

Cheltenham, Eng.: The History Press / Chicago: Trafalgar Square, 2024. Pp. 320. Illus., gloss., personae, append., sources, notes. $39.95 / £25.00. ISBN: 1803991690 ...

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note. Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. LONDON (AP) - An "Enigma" encrypting machine used to send coded military messages from Nazi Germany during World War II is going up ...

Julia Parsons knows how to keep a secret. She was tight-lipped about one for more than 50 years. Parsons, 99, of Forest Hills, was a code-breaker in World War II. She served in the U.S. Navy’s WAVES ...