If you don't know of Mavis Batey, you should. Her work cracking the Enigma machine's coded messages was crucial to the success of D-Day landings during WWII.

Experts code breakers have been called in to unravel the message The author of the note claims to be someone operating on behalf of the new owner of the Enigma machine.

This was made possible through Bombe machines, code-breaking systems which were used to decrypt Enigma-enciphered messages relating to military operations during the war.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II. J. Roberto de Marca, head of the ...

Her team was the primary codebreakers for the South American threat, and they broke three Enigma machines. Her team decoded 4,000 messages from 48 radio circuits during the war.

She couldn't tell her parents or her husband, an Army lieutenant in the South Pacific, that she deciphered German radio transmissions encoded with the Enigma machine.

Alan Turing, a crack code-breaker and visionary mathematician who was convicted under Victorian-era homophobic laws, will be the face of Britain's new £50 note.

Parsons worked in Washington. Her task was cracking the daily codes sent by the German navy using Enigma machines, so they could locate the Germans' U-boats.

A global organization of engineers on Tuesday honored the three Poles who broke the German Enigma cipher codes and helped end World War II.

The memorial is located in front of the Institute of Mathematics in downtown Warsaw. “Polish Cypher Bureau mathematicians … broke the German Enigma cypher machine code,” the plaques say.