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Idling computers crack Nazi Enigma codes (Remaining unbroken codes below)
The Times (U.K.) ^
| Sam Knight
Posted on 03/02/2006 11:14:12 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
a German submarine that was eventually sunk in the North Atlantic in February 1944 by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Woodpecker and HMS Starling. That had to be embarrassing.
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posted on
03/02/2006 12:50:47 PM PST
by
OSHA
(Liberal Utopia: When they shoot people going over the wall.)
To: nickcarraway
It's obviously the German version of the funniest joke ever told - "Two peanuts were walking down the street. And one of them was a-salted"
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posted on
03/02/2006 12:58:23 PM PST
by
SengirV
To: Strategerist
Well, I hope you're happy. I just read partway through that joke and got a little sick. I might have died, but, fortunately, it wasn't all that funny.
To: nickcarraway
This is awesome. I'm going to lend my computer to this in its idle processing time.
I wouldn't be too surprised though if these last two messages were just gibberish fakes thrown out to deliberately confuse the Allies in the case of interception. But you never know!
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:09:45 PM PST
by
jpl
("We don't negotiate with terrorists, we put them out of business." - Scott McClellan)
To: colorado tanker
I agree. Amazingly, it was the Poles who came up with some of the initial breaks in Enigma.
Have you ever visited the NSA's web site? There are some interesting (and long) articles about Enigma and how it was broken. Click on this link:
http://www.nsa.gov/history/histo00007.cfm
Warning: Reading "The Cryptographic Mathematics of Enigma" will make you insane or your head explode!
To: MplsSteve
I haven't seen the NSA article, but have read Codebreakers - a good read.
IMHO the Poles have never gotten enough credit for getting their hands on the first machine.
I got to see an original Enigma in the Imperial War Museum, a way cool place.
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:27:41 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
(We need more "chicken-bleep Democrats" in the Senate!)
To: jpl
This is pretty cool. I'd do it, too, if I weren't already folding proteins with my computers. If any of you are interested, please check out the FR folding threads after the code is broken. You can put your computers to work finding cures for Alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases. Thanks.
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:28:15 PM PST
by
generally
(Ask me about FReepers Folding@Home)
To: colorado tanker
I'll bet the Imperial War Museum is incredible!
I saw an Enigma once. Back in 1989, the Smithsonian's Museum of American History had one on display. I was told that it was the first time since WWII ended that one was put on public display.
Interesting.
To: MplsSteve
If you get to London, be sure to see the IWM annex, Churchill's WWII secret bunker under the Public Works department. It's been opened to the public and is fascinating as well.
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:36:39 PM PST
by
colorado tanker
(We need more "chicken-bleep Democrats" in the Senate!)
To: SengirV
It's obviously the German version of the funniest joke ever told - "Two peanuts were walking down the street. And one of them was a-salted""We'll let you know." * BANG *
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:37:45 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: babble-on
Ein widerlich stinkend anzeige? Hundesohn!
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posted on
03/02/2006 1:51:15 PM PST
by
70times7
(An open mind is a cesspool of thought)
To: nickcarraway
"the walrus was paul" ...."live long and prosper" "a nickel aint worth a dime" .....
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posted on
03/02/2006 2:00:50 PM PST
by
isom35
To: MplsSteve
I'd like to see our computers attempt to decipher the remaining Venona transcripts - if they're capable of doing it.
Unfortunately impossible. Most of the Venona transcripts were encrypted using
a One-Time Pad and thus theoretically unbreakable. Those that NSA managed to break were purely a result of Soviets screwing up. Those that
can be decrypted are most likely already decrypted by NSA...
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posted on
03/02/2006 3:04:19 PM PST
by
MirrorField
(Just an opinion from atheist, minarchist and small-l libertarian.)
To: DAVEY CROCKETT; WestCoastGal; Velveeta; Calpernia
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posted on
03/02/2006 5:35:58 PM PST
by
nw_arizona_granny
(TODAY WOULD BE A GOOD DAY FOR LOTS OF HEAVY PRAYING, THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS.)
To: nickcarraway
What's the prize if we win?!
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posted on
03/02/2006 7:28:30 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
To: MirrorField
I stand corrected.
I had previously read a few articles about VENONA and incorrectly assumed the Russian codes could be broken with extensive use of a computer.
I read the Wikipedia link for one-time pad. You're right. It is virtually impossible to crack. The only stuff we know is because of a lucky break.
Nonetheless, it would be fascinating if we were able to translate the remaining VENONA intercepts. I think we'd be horrified at the depths of Soviet penetration of our government.
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posted on
03/03/2006 9:35:28 PM PST
by
Uriah_lost
(http://www.wingercomics.com/d/20051205.html)
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