More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. The M4 Project began ...

Germans increased to three wheels out of five then added a more complex plugboard and they invaded Poland. Three out of five wheels means they would have needed 60 Bomba machines. The full later war ...

The Enigma code, once deemed unbreakable by Nazi Germany and famously cracked by Alan Turing and his team at Bletchley Park, would pose little challenge to modern computing power, say technology ...