The Enigma Codes
This one took some time to solve...Three German ciphers unsolved since World War II are finally being cracked, helped by thousands of home computers.
The codes resisted the best efforts of the celebrated Allied cryptographers based at Bletchley Park during the war.
Now one has been solved by running code-breaking software on a "grid" of internet-linked home computers.
The complex ciphers were encoded in 1942 by a new version of the German Enigma machine, and led to regular hits on Allied vessels by German U-boats.
Allied experts initially failed to deal with the German adoption in 1942 of a complex new cipher system, brought in at the same time as a newly upgraded Enigma machine...
...The latest attempt to crack the codes was kick-started by Stefan Krah, a German-born violinist with an interest in cryptography and open-source software...
posted by Hurler @ 6:18 pm
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