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/
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User of the day

Bernd Vogler
Mahlzeit,
Mein Name ist Bernd, lebe in Kronach (Oberfranken), bin 1977 geboren und mag alles was mit Technik und Computern zusammenhängt.

Project total CPU time equivalent to: 3946 years, 334 days, 12 hours, 21 minutes of Athlon 1400 CPU time.

Best Results:

hceyz72: Score: 1883763 Settings: B:GI:XMXF:B256:AUBXCMERFGIQJKNYOTPWVZ
effenyodendetersixssfruenrdursersumnenxannuenioiiningrneunebeuenkuleplnu found by Eliot Meadow
awgly100: Score: 2244349 Settings: B:CS:AXWI:B152:BKCLDOEHFSGXITPUQRWZ
ygrentbsnwahagegenfnwosstvendrrvehtverseteabeglnxmfagerendansenhatenxsufecktrtelleinuyquineldkrhrlep found by The Uncle Bs

News

Server downtime
During this weekend the server will be taken down for O/S upgrade. The old distro (Debian 4) will be replaced by Debian 5 amd64, since the older version has a limited support and probably slows down the hardware a bit. It's hard to estimate how long the upgrade process will take, but I'd say that 8-12 hours minimum, because I have to do a complete backup first, so in the worst case I'll be able to rollback everything to the previous state.
9 Mar 2010 10:25:45 UTC Comment

Temporarily out of work
The server is out of work, for two reasons: the M4 server is out of work, because the awgly keyspace is finished. Also, I was going to run one of the other known unbroken messages while waiting for Stefan Krah to update the M4 server, but unfortunately during the last few hours one of the BOINC server's hard drives failed. Luckily nothing seems to be damaged except one table which contains unimportant log data, but until I'll fully diagnose and fix the problem, I'm taking all the daemons offline. It's also possible that later today I'll shutdown the server to replace the drive.
16 Nov 2009 0:00:00 UTC Comment

Test workunits
I have released a small number of test workunits to check the server software. Read more in this forum thread.
5 Oct 2009 0:00:00 UTC Comment

Database maintenance
The project server will be shut down tomorrow (26th Feb) around 12:00pm GMT+1 for a quick database optimization, the downtime shouldn't last longer than 2 hours.
25 Feb 2009 0:00:00 UTC Comment

BOINC 6.6.0 for Mac
BOINC 6.6.0 alpha for Mac is now available at http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php. This version fixes wrong file permissions issues with Enigma@Home (and probably any other project which uses copy_file flag). Also, BOINC dev-team could use some more Mac alpha testers, if anyone would like to become an alpha tester, please read here about it: http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/alpha/.
12 Jan 2009 0:00:00 UTC Comment

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