Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I was given one sentence, 'We are breaking German codes, end of story'." It was Ruth Bourne's first job out of college, when, ...

Surely you’ve heard of the German Enigma machine and the Allied efforts to crack it during World War II. Well researchers, using a rebuilt Colossus machine (yup, that’s it right there), wanted to see ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England – During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and at ...

Of the 10,000-plus staff at the Government Code and Cypher School during World War II, two-thirds were female. Three veteran servicewomen explain what life was like as part of the code-breaking ...