Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians, crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago set in motion a series of battles in the Pacific between the Japanese and the United States. The turning point in the Pacific came in June 1942, when the U.S.

Watches are meant to keep time, but the UK-based firm of Bremont and the Bletchley Park Trust have teamed up to produce a watch that preserves time. The Bremont Codebreaker is a limited edition ...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Codebreaker” tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S.

Elizebeth Friedman was a star cryptanalyst who cracked hundreds of ciphers for the U.S. government. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Armed with a sharp mind and nerves of steel, Elizebeth Smith ...

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...

The Houston Astros' sign-stealing scheme had its origins in an application created by the team's front office, according to a report published Friday night by the Wall Street Journal. Dubbed ...

In October 1957, American cryptologist and codebreaker Elizebeth S. Friedman and her husband, William F. Friedman, were the subjects of a short article in TIME magazine about their new book debunking ...

Cheat fans, your wait is over. Pelican has finally pushed to market a meaty Codebreaker. Previous versions not withstanding, the Codebreaker has enjoyed great support from it code-generating staff ...

The death of MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams – whose naked body was found inside an externally locked bag in his bathtub in 2010 – was a “perfect crime,” a confined spaces expert says. Peter Faulding ...