Hi all, more or less for fun I'm running a distributed attack on 3 original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942. The attack has proven to work on some challenge messages presented in the journal Cryptologia:
http://www.bytereef.org/m4_project.html So much for the blurb. The thing is, the project is quite new and I've only mentioned it in one German news group so far, so I don't have much feedback yet. I wonder if anyone would be willing to check out the install instructions for the client and give some comments. Install/Uninstall should be really quick: http://www.bytereef.org/howto/m4-project/enigma-client-unix-install.html I have run the software in the background for more than two months on two machines and I'm pretty convinced that it doesn't do anything funny on your system. Some more general questions: Clearly the project is from the "Because we can" department. Is it realistic to hope that anywhere between 10-100 people would take part? Does the intro page make clear what the whole thing is about? The client is designed to run in the background, so the user doesn't get any status information. Is that a drawback? (Of course you _can_ run the client in the foreground, but that is slightly more complicated.) Stefan Krah -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
