[SirTaurus]

Distributed computing cracks Enigma code
what took them years was done in months with open source software.

[Iris7]

"..what took them years was done in months with open source software."

Looks like computers came from WWII code breaking, Turing and Von Neuman, Colossus and Eniac. The first big real time application, SAGE, was run on late model Forrester and Olsen Whirlwinds.

The Whirlwind began building in 1945 as I recall, and ended with SAGE, where each computing center had two CPUs each using, count them, 55,000 vacuum tubes. 12AU7s as I recall. Whole new vacuum tube technologies had to be developed to increase CPU uptime but two were still needed. All 55,000 tubes were replaced all at once by tubes made in one lot and by an interval determined by extensive statistical analysis made on the same lot of tubes installed in the machine for failure likelyhood probability functions. 110000 12AU7 tubes each putting out maybe 15 watts apiece or over one million watts of heat.

[Iris7]

Incredible flaws in Enigma algorithm and even more flaws in their crypto procedures. Extremely fun WWII crypto simulators here.

This guy can not be broken at all, nohow, no-when, even by quantum computing (if such a thing exists) and it was deployed in 1943.

SIGSALY