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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