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Grid computing cracks Nazi codes

 
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 6:17 pm    Post subject: Grid computing cracks Nazi codes Reply with quote
A grid of internet-linked home computers has been successful in cracking some elusive WWII German
ciphers. The codes resisted the best efforts of the celebrated Allied cryptographers based at
Bletchley Park during the war. The project, named M4, in honour of the M4 Enigma machine that
originally encoded the ciphers, uses a c...read more
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