Online amateurs crack Nazi codes

[AGENDA21]

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4763854.stm

[wakeme2008]

1. cool sounds like fun

:)

[Celebration]

2. oh that is so cool

Power to the people. Maybe now turn their attention toward peak oil.

[bryant69]

3. Well it helped that a key phrase in these transmissions

one repeated over and over again, is "We are soooo fucked."

Bryant
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[LostinVA]

5. hehehehe

[shenmue]

4. Wonderful

I've always been fascinated by that case.