Ruth Bourne, a former wartime code-cracker who worked at Bletchley and used the original Bombes, oversaw the modern effort. Enigma machines were used extensively by the German army and navy during ...
On Saturday it will open a gallery dedicated to the Bombe, which helped speed up the cracking of messages scrambled with the Enigma machine. The Bombe was formerly on display at Bletchley Park ...
Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization ... seemingly impregnable Enigma encoding machine, was classified.
The Enigma machine, first patented in 1919, was after various improvements adopted by the German Navy in 1926, the Army in 1928, and the Air Force in 1935. It was also used by the Abwehr ...
The Bletchley is a spy-themed London bar where you have to crack codes to order drinks. To do that, you use imitation World War 2 Enigma machines which generate a unique code for every "agent." ...
(SSPL/Getty Images) Peter Westcombe, founder of the Bletchley Park Trust, explains in detail how the Enigma machine works and how its codes were broken by the code-breakers at Bletchley Park.