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Idling computers crack Nazi Enigma codes
By Sam Knight (timesonline.co.uk)
An amateur cryptologist's internet project is using idling computers
to help crack three Nazi codes that eluded the Enigma codebreakers of
the Second World War.
Launched in January, the project has already broken one of the three
messages, from a U-Boat commander forced to dive during an attack on
November 25, 1942. The computers of 2,500 strangers are now whirring
away, trying to decode the remaining two.
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Stefan Krah, a German-born cryptologist from Utrecht, in the
Netherlands, started the network in January after writing a programme
that combined the brute force of connected computers with a
mathematical formula based on previous codebreaking work.
He offered the software to readers of two online bulletin boards with
the words: "Clearly the project is from the 'Because we can'
department. Is it realistic to hope that anywhere between 10-100
people would take part?"
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The entire article is at
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2066177,00.html
Bob Margolis
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