More from the BBC... : Colossus loses code-cracking race
Martin Postranecky <mp-/[email protected]>
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Friday, 16 November 2007, 13:43 GMT Colossus loses code-cracking race --------------------------------- By Mark Ward Technology Correspondent, BBC News website An amateur cryptographer has beaten Colossus in a code-cracking challenge set up to mark the end of a project to rebuild the pioneering computer. The competition saw Colossus return to code-cracking duties for the first time in more than 60 years. The team using Colossus managed to decipher the message just after lunch on 16 November. But before that effort began Bonn-based amateur Joachim Schuth revealed he had managed to read the message..../snip/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7098005.stm plus see also... http://www.tnmoc.co.uk/cipher7.htm http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2212177,00.html