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1) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 77869
Posted 12 May 2017 by TJM
Enigma@Home is down because the VPS which hosts the web server is not responding. For the past few days it went offline a couple of times and the service provider was unable to fix the problem so far, so at this moment I'm considering moving this server somewhere else.
2) Message boards : Projects : Enigma@Home - FNYG MXHU message broken
Message 49670
Posted 20 Jun 2013 by TJM
Today at night Enigma@Home server received a full decrypt of FNYG MXHU message.
At 76 letters length it is probably the shortest known M4 message broken by 'ciphertext only' attack.
The project made 48 full walks through the full M4 Enigma keyspace before the solution was found. I don't have full CPU-time stats yet, but I doubt this could be done on a single PC in reasonable time.

The message was one of the two unbroken from U534, which was sank in 1945 and then salvaged in 1993: http://www.enigma.hoerenberg.com/index.php?cat=The%20U534%20messages&page=U534

A copy&paste quote from the project forums:


Today around 02:30 GMT+2 ThrasherX-17 from team Keep The Fire Alive! returned a plaintext of 76 letters long FNYG MXHU message:

leitungvvvuuustuetzpktxwwwhavenxxfffttteunszwozwovierhuermitvrrhhhvvvgeloest

The message says:
"AN LEITUNG VON U BOOT STUETZPUNKT WILHELMSHAVEN: FUNKTELEGRAMM EINS ZWO ZWO VIER HIER MIT RHV GELOEST"

Which translates to:

"To administration from U Boot Command (Headquater) Wilhelmshaven. Radio message 1224 solved with RHV (Hand Cipher System)"

3) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 41774
Posted 24 Dec 2011 by TJM
Enigma@Home went down due to problems with one of the hard drives, the website probably will be down at least until tomorrow, can't say much about daemons until I'll find out which drive is failing.
4) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages
Message 37414
Posted 7 Apr 2011 by TJM
Dnetc is down because they have extremely serious problem with the server. Based on what I know, I can only say that the downtime will be rather long.


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