Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created -- the Enigma machine -- may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the German romantic poets at ...

British intelligence has released new photos showing the World War II era "Colossus" computer. It marked the 80th anniversary of the code-breaking computer's invention. The device's existence was ...

Former codebreaker, Ruth Bourne, photographed for The Telegraph earlier this year - Andrew Crowley If you presented 99-year-old Ruth Bourne with a Bombe, the electromechanical code-breaking machine ...

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the development of Colossus — arguably the first programmable computer ever made — the U.K. intelligence and security organization known as the Government ...

China is racing to harden its quantum ambitions on two fronts at once, pairing more powerful quantum processors with new cryptographic tools designed to survive a future of code-breaking machines.

Code breaker and father of artificial intelligence Alan Turing will be the face of the U.K.’s new polymer 50-pound ($63) note. The mathematician was chosen from almost 1,000 eligible nominations from ...

When a handful of specialist electronics engineers sat down to recreate a working replica of a famous Second World War code-breaking machine little did they know that soon they'd have a vital role to ...