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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Distributed computing cracks Enigma message

"More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine," reports CNet.

"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."

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