Enigma code cracked by M4 project
By Marc Perton 
posted February 27th 2006 3:03PM
posted February 27th 2006 3:03PM
What Alan Turing and the cryptographers of
Bletchley Park started, distributed computing has finished. The M4 Project, which started its work less than two months
ago, has cracked the first of three encrypted Nazi messages from 1942, which were never decoded during World War II.
Using open source software, the team cracked a message that was apparently sent by a German sub, which said it was
"forced to submerge" during a battle. Next up: two more messages leftover from the war, after which we assume
the project will tackle the Vernam cipher.[Via News.com]
Wooooow! That'll win the war on terror.
Just wait 'till thse guys start going after bin Laden.
That's actually pretty cool, let's hope this keeps the History Channel alive for a few more years.
That is not a photo of the Enigma machine, that looks like a typewritter
Yeah, I was worried that the history channel was going to run out of subject matter. It's not like there is ever going to be any more history.
Pretty impressive how these codes still pose such a challenge to modern technology. You would think it would be easy for a computer to just brute force these things.
They've just done the second one as well, no translation yet tho..
Receieved ein messsage von der Zukunft, vom thosand des Jahres zwei und sechs. Anzeige sagt bewegliche Abbildungsvorrichtung vom Apfel, der auf dem eigth Zwanzig von feburary freigegeben wird. Anzeige f?t fort, nicht eine ehrliche F?chung.
lol at #5
I did a babel translation
Receieved measuringsays two and six of the future, of thosand the yearly. Announcement says mobile illustration device of the apple, which is released on eigth twenty of feburary. Announcement continues, not an honest falsification.
This doesn't make any sense in German....(I'm German ;) ) ... I guess it's messed up cause of different word-meanings and gramma.
Or we Germans knew about mobile devices from Apple in the future :D
3.,
on the contrary, we are making more history by the day
haha, i love #5's attempt to put a message saying that in the year 2006, feb 28th there will be an announcement about a video ipod or something as such XD good try there
Duh jiza :p I think that was the joke.
OMG ze Germans could tell about the new Apple products! They must be true like all those pictures!
8,9 -
The beauty was that 3's name was Captain Obvious.
:) I love horrible translations.
I think it has something to do with the time machines the Germans had, I was reading an article on www.techbull.com/germans_time_travel/wtf_bs.htm explaining this incredible feat. Maybe the text was scrammbled in the transit.
This just in: Contents of Message 2 have been decrypted:
Captain: My Dog, he has no nose.
Crew: How does he smell?
Captain: Awful.
This thread is the best laff i've had in days. combined w pix from WWJD Engadget has provided some real entertainment today.
...I have no life.
First Mate: Why don't cannibals eat clowns?
Ubergreppenfuhrer: Because they taste funny.
Everything has a begining.
3. That is not a photo of the Enigma machine, that looks like a typewritter
I believe it's a Typex machine that the operators would type the plain text on the back... ahh i knew my trips to Bletchley Park would come in useful someday ;)
That picture seems to be simply a different model of the enigma machine. (From what I understand, there were a few.) Some website I just looked at says it's the Model B, whatever that means.
Hey Engadget,
Bletchley Park did not start a bloody thing, they simply followed the work of Polish mathematicians who decrypted Enigma long before the war.
Reminds me of U-571 movie...
issit the same?