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Dealer admits handling stolen Enigma machine
News Dennis Yates, a dealer in World War Two memorabilia, has pleaded guilty to the charge of handling a stolen Enigma encoding machine. The Abwehr Enigma G312 machine, worth £10,000, is one of only three... [26 Sep 2001]
ENIGMA: A Testbed for MPLS and QoS Integration on IP Networks
White Paper ENIGMA is a network configuration and management environment that provides end to end QoS (quality of service) across an MPLS Transport network for UMTS services. As a result, a new concept of transport network is... [17 Jul 2008]
Computers: the British Answer to the German Enigma Machines
White Paper This paper shows that the encryption capabilities of the Third Reich’s Enigma machine prompted British cryptanalysts to develop the world’s first programmable computer, called Colossus. Using code-breaking databases... [25 Feb 2004]
Lifting the Grounding Enigma
White Paper Today’s recording technology offers unsurpassed quality and accuracy, yet grounding system noise still baffles the experts. Grounding noise is one of the most common complaints from audio engineers, but it's difficult to explain noise... [25 Feb 2004]
John Lamb's week: E-marketers say show me the money
Comment Wednesday The trial of Dennis Yates in connection with the theft of a historic Enigma encryption device should start today in Aylesbury. The antique dealer is charged with blackmail and receiving stolen goods after the... [21 Sep 2001]
HybriCore Technology: Delivering End-to-End System-Level QoS Functionality
White Paper Enigma's HybriCore backplane interconnect chipset offers some compelling advantages to system OEMs in terms of density, system power and scalability. However, one of the clear questions that system architects, who are... [18 Jul 2008]
Cryptography is Not the Ultimate Solution
White Paper Cryptography and the breaking of codes were critical factors in the naval, air and sea battles of World War II.Older cryptographic engines, like the Enigma, relied on the use of symmetric key cryptography: both the... [25 Feb 2004]
Understanding Heuristics: Symantec’s Bloodhound Technology
White Paper To illustrate this concept, the Traveling Salesman problem is a classic enigma in computer science for which computer scientists have devised many heuristic solutions. The word “heuristic” was initially coined by the... [25 Feb 2004]
Britain's classic computers: A silicon.com special
News While Bletchley Park may be best known for housing the Enigma code-breaking machine during World War II, the former intelligence facility is still home to numerous tech treasures in the National Museum of Computing. [02 Oct 2008]
Bletchley Park restoration short on funds
News Bletchley is home to a rebuilt version of the legendary Colossus code breaking machine which cracked the Nazi Enigma code and played a major part in ending the war in 1945. Historic Bletchley Park needs a financial... [30 May 2008]
Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine
Photo These wireless telegraphy huts were used by people like Alan Turing to crack the Nazi army's coded messages, such as those sent by the famous Enigma machine which Hitler believed was unbreakable. Bletchley Park was the... [18 Mar 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Photo credit: MessageLabs silicon.com took a trip to Bletchley Park to see the rebuilt Colossus machine used to break the German Enigma code during World War II. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats... [27 Mar 2008]
Nasa on the track of Polish hacker
News During the Second World War, computer experts there helped break the infamous Nazi Enigma code. Polish officials have begun a manhunt after a hacker penetrated US space agency Nasa causing $1m worth of damage. [28 Jun 2002]
Bletchley Park future under colossal threat
News Bletchley Park is famous for the decrypting messages enciphered by the Nazi Enigma machines - depicted in the Hollywood movie of the same name - and also for the world's first codebreaking supercomputer Colossus, which... [24 Jul 2008]
The McCue Interview: Vodafone CIO and CTO Paul Wybrow
Comment During our interview he will turn out to be open and likeable as we talk - yet to many outside the giant network operator he is an enigma. silicon.com chief reporter Andy McCue this week hands over the writing of the... [07 Sep 2005]
