Well i've joined it
http://www.bytereef.org/m4_project.html
The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma messages with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken. Ralph Erskine has presented the intercepts in a letter to the journal Cryptologia. The signals were presumably enciphered with the four rotor Enigma M4 - hence the name of the project.
BBC report - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4763854.stm
For the Geeks - M4 Project
Sounds fun. Can't help wondering if the clock cycles might be put to better use with Folding@Home though.
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I used to do Seti@Home until they fooked it up with the stupid BOINC thing that I can't get to work properly.
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I hope it's something interesting, and not just a German shopping list.
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I was on that too until I found out my 'puter was slow enough already by itselfmarkfiend wrote:I used to do Seti@Home until they fooked it up with the stupid BOINC thing that I can't get to work properly.
So I'm affraid I'm not giving the men on this project any of my hard-needed capacity
Is that the same as the United Devices Grid.org program?Motz wrote:Sounds fun. Can't help wondering if the clock cycles might be put to better use with Folding@Home though.
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I've been running that one for about 3 1/2 years Earns me extra credits on Easynews too
1st breakthrough -
0425 Ausgang FT. 0246/21/203:
> Auf Geleitkurs 55° nichts gefunden, marschie-
> re befohlenes Qu. Standort Marqu. AJ 3995
> SO 4, See 3, 10/10 bedeckt, 28 mb steigend,
> Nebel, Sicht 1 sm.
> Schroeder
0425 Outgoing Radio Signal 0246/21/203:
> Found nothing on convoy's course 55°, move into
> ordered Quadrant. Position Marqu. AJ 3995
> [wind] south-east [force] 4, sea [state] 3, 10/10
cloudy,
> [barometer] [10]28 mb [and] rising, fog, visibility 1
nautical mile.
> Schroeder
>
>
>
> Explanation:
>
> 0246/21/203: time/date/message serial number
>
> AJ 3995: German naval grid reference, 56-33 N, 37-36 W
>
> Schroeder Hermann Schröder, Oberleutnant zur See on U623
0425 Ausgang FT. 0246/21/203:
> Auf Geleitkurs 55° nichts gefunden, marschie-
> re befohlenes Qu. Standort Marqu. AJ 3995
> SO 4, See 3, 10/10 bedeckt, 28 mb steigend,
> Nebel, Sicht 1 sm.
> Schroeder
0425 Outgoing Radio Signal 0246/21/203:
> Found nothing on convoy's course 55°, move into
> ordered Quadrant. Position Marqu. AJ 3995
> [wind] south-east [force] 4, sea [state] 3, 10/10
cloudy,
> [barometer] [10]28 mb [and] rising, fog, visibility 1
nautical mile.
> Schroeder
>
>
>
> Explanation:
>
> 0246/21/203: time/date/message serial number
>
> AJ 3995: German naval grid reference, 56-33 N, 37-36 W
>
> Schroeder Hermann Schröder, Oberleutnant zur See on U623