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   CRYPTOGRAPHY : DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
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Amateur Cracks Secret Nazi Code -- Walaika K. Haskins,  -- Newsfactor  -- March 02, 2006

Nazi code that eluded the best cryptographers the Allied forces had to offer during World War II has been solved by an amateur codebreaker with the assistance of a network of computers.

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Distributed Computing to Crack WWII Encryption -- Staff  -- M4 Project  -- February 24, 2006

The M4 Message Breaking Project is harnessing the power of distributed computing to crack a few remaining Enigma intercepts from WWII. The first intercept has already been broken and an interpretation posted.

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Distributed Computing Key to Decoding Human Factor -- Brian Krebs  -- Washington Post  -- March 28, 2005

The Secret Service, inspired by the popularity and success of distributed computing projects like SETI@Home program, is using a distributed computing program on about 4,000 of its office computers to crack encrypted documents critical for its investigations.

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