Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Cracking German WWII Messages
In World War II the Germans used a code called Enigma to keep their messages secret from the allies. Three uncracked messages were found and published in 1995. A distributed computing project called M4 is trying to decipher the messages. The BBC reports that the Enigma project cracks second code. The plaintext of the message is in the article and is fairly mundane but it's still pretty cool.
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