Friday, November 16, 2007

Saksa- Englanti 1-1

In the Cipher Challenge, a competition run by the U.K.'s National Museum of Computing on Thursday and Friday, the cipher-breaking computer Colossus had to decode encrypted radio communications intercepted from Paderborn in Germany. Competing against Colossus, which took 14 years to rebuild, were radio enthusiasts from across Europe, who had to beat the WWII code cracker using whatever computing means they had at their disposal.
The winner was Joachim Schüth, from Bonn, who completed the task using software he wrote himself.

A reconstructed Colossus vacuum-tube system was no match for homegrown PC software in cracking enciphered test messages similar to the ones the British broke during World War II.
The Colossus codecracker contest was a short-lived ordeal. Not only has it been outdone in a cipher-breaking challenge, but — irony of ironies — it was beaten by a German!"

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