Trouble is the war ended 61 years ago:
Three German ciphers unsolved since World War II are finally being cracked, helped by thousands of home computers. The codes resisted the best efforts of the celebrated Allied cryptographers based at Bletchley Park during the war. Now one has been solved by running code-breaking software on a "grid" of internet-linked home computers.But this is just the start, of course, as we can rest assured that tyranny the world over now will have to face the massed computing power of the internet and millions of computers in democratic households throughout the free nations of the world. That's how it's going to work out, right?

Comments
Gordo - March 2, 2006 11:36 am
Had the Nazis used PGP, they'd be needing hundreds of years per message to decode them.
Andrew - May 29, 2006 10:19 am
Enigma was good enough at the time...