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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

Sounds fun. Can't help wondering if the clock cycles might be put to better use with Folding@Home though.

Wikipedia - http://www.distributedcomputing.info/wiki/index.php/M4

I used to do Seti@Home until they fooked it up with the stupid BOINC thing that I can't get to work properly.

I hope it's something interesting, and not just a German shopping list.

Zwei Bottles of Milk
Ein Bag of Sugar
HMS Ark Royal

markfiend 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.

I was on that too until I found out my 'puter was slow enough already by itself

So I'm affraid I'm not giving the men on this project any of my hard-needed capacity

Motz wrote:Sounds fun. Can't help wondering if the clock cycles might be put to better use with Folding@Home though.

Is that the same as the United Devices Grid.org program?

clicky

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