Enigma@Home

About Enigma@Home

Enigma@Home is a wrapper between BOINC and Stefan Krah's M4 Project. 'The M4 Project is an effort to break 3 original Enigma messages with the help of distributed computing. The signals were intercepted in the North Atlantic in 1942 and are believed to be unbroken.' [read more] You can participate by downloading and running a free program on your computer.

Hardware requirements

Pentium or better CPU
32MB RAM
5MB free HD space

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This project uses BOINC. If you're already running BOINC, select Attach to Project. If not, download BOINC.
When prompted, enter
http://www.enigmaathome.net/
If you're running a command-line or pre-5.0 version of BOINC, create an account first.
If you have any problems, get help here.

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Fivestar Crashtest

I am a 50 year old postal worker in Iowa. I like astronomy, science fiction and WWII History. I became a distributed computing fan starting in...

Project total CPU time equivalent to: 205 years, 279 days, 6 hours, 35 minutes of Athlon 1400 CPU time.

Best Result:

Score: 1883763 Settings: B:GI:XMXF:B256:AUBXCMERFGIQJKNYOTPWVZ
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News

January 20, 2008 Planned outage
Starting at early February, the project will be out of work for some time, please read this forum thread for more details.

December 31, 2007 Happy New Year
I wish you all a happy New Year !

December 2, 2007 Mac Intel/PPC apps
Lars Bausch has compiled both enigma and wrapper for MacOS running on Intel and PowerPC CPUs. There are some minor issues with these apps, but returned results are valid. Please report any problems on message boards.

November 22, 2007 Private messages email notifications
There has been a discussion about email notifications, David Anderson stated that it should default to off. I have tweaked the database, it's already set to off by default for all new accounts. I'm going to reset it to off for everyone, so if you want email notifications, go to your forum preferences and switch it back on.

October 30, 2007 Server upgrade
I'm going to shutdown the server tomorrow (31.10.2007) at 7:30pm GMT to do a full upgrade to the latest SVN revision. The server will be down for a couple of hours, during this time only forum will be accessible, I'll make a post there with informations about progress.

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