Nazi code that eluded the best cryptographers the Allied forces had to offer during World War II has been solved by an amateur codebreaker with the assistance of a network of computers.
The three uncracked ciphers -- a cipher is a method of transforming text in order to conceal its meaning -- were encrypted in 1942 with a new version of the infamous German Enigma machine, which was used to direct attacks against Allied shipping in the Atlantic.
The M4 Project, the brainchild of Stefan Krah, a violinist and amateur cryptographer of German birth, is credited with cracking one of the three remaining ciphers. The project was named in honor of the M4 Enigma machine that originally encoded the messages.
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So this is the enigma code being referred to?
I thought they broke it 60 years ago.
I thought they had cracked it, too. I remember that being said on a program on the Hitler (History) Channel. I'd be glad to donate some of my CPU cycles to crack AACS. It'll probably be a violation of the DMCA to do it knowingly so it could be distriubted as a virus of some sort.
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