Levka<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enigma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enigma</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p><p>"The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his fellow codebreakers a herculean effort to crack. Yet experts say it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.</p><p>While Polish experts broke early versions of the Enigma code in the 1930s and built anti-Enigma machines, subsequent security upgrades by the Germans meant Turing had to develop new machines, or 'Bombes', to help his team of codebreakers decipher enemy messages. By 1943, the machines could decipher two messages every minute.</p><p>Yet while the race to break the Enigma code has become famous, credited with shortening the second world war by up to two years, and spawning various Hollywood films, experts say cracking it would be a trivial matter today.</p><p>'Enigma wouldn’t stand up to modern computing and statistics,' said Michael Wooldridge, a professor of computer science and an expert in artificial intelligence (AI) at the University of Oxford."</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/07/todays-ai-can-crack-second-world-war-enigma-code-in-short-order-experts-say" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/07/todays-ai-can-crack-second-world-war-enigma-code-in-short-order-experts-say</span></a></p>