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Distributed Enigma Message Breaking Project; Looking for participants
Topic Started: Feb 2 2006, 11:05 AM (235 Views)
Stefan Feb 2 2006, 11:05 AM Post #1
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 Hi all,

I am currently running a distributed computing project with the goal
to decrypt three original Enigma messages that were intercepted in the
North Atlantic in 1942. Enigma researcher Ralph Erskine has presented
those messages in a letter to the journal Cryptologia in 1995. The
messages are believed to be unbroken.

Details are here:

http://www.bytereef.org/m4_project.html


If this sounds interesting to you, you can help out by installing the client
software. I have been running the client for more than 3 months in the
background on two machines and it appears to be stable. About 10
people are running the software already.


I'd also be interested if the website makes clear what the whole thing is about,
and if the client install instructions are easy to follow.


Stefan
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Donald Feb 2 2006, 05:09 PM Post #2
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 This looks very interesting! It seems like I downloaded a Python interpreter not to long ago, got to go look it up.

Thanks for the invitation to participate!
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Guest Feb 2 2006, 05:51 PM Post #3
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Nice to see there is some interest! As for the Python interpreter:

If you use the WinExe versions, you don't need it. The Python script has been converted
into .exe with the py2exe program. This also explains the large download size, since a lot
of Python libraries are included. The online install instructions are for this version.

If you have Python already, you could download the sources of the win version,
compile with mingw and follow INSTALL.txt. It is probably slightly more complicated,
but not much.

If you use the Unix/Linux version, you need the interpreter.


Stefan
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