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Help Break Original Enigma Messages

Stereo writes "The Enigma Machine was cracked in Poland in 1932, but three messages remain unbroken, despite having been intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942. The M4 Project, named after the four rotor Enigma M4 used for encryption, is a distributed computing effort to break them. One message has already been deciphered successfully!"

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  1. Hey knobjockey by weierstrass · · Score: -1, Troll

    >Enigma wasn't cracked because of weaknesses in the algorithm

    if you know shit about shit, why not keep your mouth shut?

    the need to say something that's crap from start to finish just in order to have something to say is starting to really get me down about this place.

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    my password really is 'stinkypants'
  2. hey paul by weierstrass · · Score: -1, Troll

    thanks for your bullshit, irrelevant input.

    i am not entering into debate about these points of fact.
    you and the OP are wrong.

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    my password really is 'stinkypants'
  3. Re:Future Global Conflict by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In the last world war, it was not just the United States that secured victory. It was the combined efforts and industries of the United States, Britain and her dominions plus Russia.

    Many games and movies would have you believe otherwise, but the USA was not alone in WW2.

  4. Re:Sorry I thought this was hilarious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's late and I should be in bed.

    You mom told you to go to bed and you're up being a bad boy staying up late surfing?
    Listen to your parents, kiddo.

    How is that an excuse to produce unwanted results?
    "Sorry I crashed the airplane, it's just late... and I should've been in bed."
    "Sorry I deleted the sourcecode we've been working on for the last 2 year. I thought it was this temporary directory or soemthing, it's just late.. and I should've been in bed."
    "Sorry I drove over your kid, it's just late.. and I should've been in bed."