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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 06:26 AM
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Online amateurs crack Nazi codes
Three German ciphers unsolved since World War II are finally being cracked, helped by thousands of home computers.

The codes resisted the best efforts of the celebrated Allied cryptographers based at Bletchley Park during the war.

Now one has been solved by running code-breaking software on a "grid" of internet-linked home computers.

The complex ciphers were encoded in 1942 by a new version of the German Enigma machine, and led to regular hits on Allied vessels by German U-boats.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4763854.stm
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 07:06 AM
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1. cool sounds like fun
:)
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 07:39 AM
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2. oh that is so cool
Power to the people. Maybe now turn their attention toward peak oil.
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 07:43 AM
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3. Well it helped that a key phrase in these transmissions
one repeated over and over again, is "We are soooo fucked."

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 09:30 AM
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5. hehehehe
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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 08:19 AM
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4. Wonderful
I've always been fascinated by that case.
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