Distributed computing cracks Enigma code

cnet news ^ | 2/27/06 | Graeme Wearden

[SirTaurus]

The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt to break three original Enigma messages that were intercepted in 1942 and are thought never to have been broken by the Allied forces.

These messages were encrypted using a four-rotor Enigma. That version was considered by Germany to be completely unbreakable, as it could be set up in any one of a vast number of ways (2 times 10 to the 145th power), each of which would encrypt a plain text message differently.

[null and void]

FUTURE KRYTEN: I forgot to say, before you reach the final confrontation in the storage bay you must have decoded the gauntlet's controls.
LISTER: How? Can you give us a clue?
FUTURE KRYTEN: Well, I cannot explain. For some bizarre reason my final words are "Enig."
LISTER: "Enig?!"
FUTURE KRYTEN: Yeah, enig--

[ArmstedFragg]

"Not much fun in Stalingrad, Mr. Hilter."

My second choice was:

"Dear Adolph:

Stay away from that Braun broad, she'll make you suicidal."

[PackerBronco]

So what did the messages say?

"Die ist ein Kinnerhunder und zwei Mackel uber und der bitte schon ist den Wunderhaus sprechensie. 'Nein' sprecht der Herren 'Ist aufern borger mit zveitingen'."

[festus]

LOL............

[festus]

So what did the messages say?

A7

E2

C8

You sunk my battleship!

[Mount Athos]

I am in so much pain from your reply hahahaha

[Omglol]

No No the message was Global warming is Bush's fault..lol

[Lx]

Ah, excellent book. I went to read my copy again and I can't find it. An amazing man as well as an amazing group of people.

[Larry Lucido]

"This is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

[Larry Lucido]

Or:

"Maybe he's an enigma, a mystery wrapped in a riddle."

"He's a mystery wrapped in a Twinkie."

[Redleg Duke]

Thanks! Now I won't be able to get that damned tune out of my mind all night!

[MotleyGirl70]

Lol.

[Southack]

"Radio signal 1851/19/252: "F T 1132/19 "

Message from a dead man. That's probably from U-252, which was sunk promptly thereafter. U-252 managed to sink only a single allied ship.

U-252 - Sunk at 2230hrs on 14 April, 1942 in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in approximate position 47. 00N, 18.14W, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Stork and the British corvette HMS Vetch. 44 dead (all hands lost).

[spetznaz]

Good catch.

[dynachrome]

Thanks. I knew someone out there in freeperland would know how to interpret that.

"Radio signal 1851/19/252"

[GreenHornet]

Message 2

Leave the gun, take the strudel

Message 3: "Hitler?....oh, you won't see him no more".