The spies who knit codes into sweaters
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Remembering Betty Webb: Bletchley Park and Pentagon code breaker
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German Navy Enigma machine systems were different to the Army, making them tougher to crack. In this video, James Grime discusses the differences and what Alan Turing achieved in breaking the code.
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How codebreakers decrypted a trove of long-lost letters written by Mary, Queen of Scots
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Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine
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A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did
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