Message boards : Projects : Enigma@Home - FNYG MXHU message broken
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Send message Joined: 25 Jul 08 Posts: 4 |
Today at night Enigma@Home server received a full decrypt of FNYG MXHU message. At 76 letters length it is probably the shortest known M4 message broken by 'ciphertext only' attack. The project made 48 full walks through the full M4 Enigma keyspace before the solution was found. I don't have full CPU-time stats yet, but I doubt this could be done on a single PC in reasonable time. The message was one of the two unbroken from U534, which was sank in 1945 and then salvaged in 1993: http://www.enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=The%20U534%20messages&page=U534 A copy&paste quote from the project forums:
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Send message Joined: 20 Nov 10 Posts: 33 |
Fantastic news! |
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