Enigma cracked again

An Enigma message sent over 65 years ago and thought to have been unbroken to this day has been cracked by a group of volunteer computer enthusiasts.

The 2,700+ strong group Enigmaathome.net has been using nearly 4,500 individual computers in a massive international effort to decode surviving unbroken messages.

The interface uses the standard BOINC distributed computing client software, and anyone can take part in the project.

To carry out the work of the project so far, a single computer would have to be left running for over 4000 years, such is the complexity of the Enigma system- a true testament to it's original design.

Here is a link to the project web site:
www.enigmaathome.net

Our thanks to Greg Smith, M3TMH for spotting this item