The Enigma Enigma

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Evangelion

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Wednesday 27th July 2016
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One of my dafter friends has just asked me,

"If Alan Turing and few hundred other brainiacs and the first computer cracked the German Enigma code, could one expert and a family computer from PC World beat it in half the time?"

How does he expect me to know?

Discuss.

Evangelion

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7,734 posts

179 months

Friday 29th July 2016
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Thorburn said:


... the computing power in my smartwatch is many magnitudes greater than what put man on the moon ...
Yes, but we all know they faked that!