A three-rotor German military Enigma machine showing, from bottom to top, the plugboard, the keyboard, the lamps and the finger-wheels of the rotors emerging from the inner lid With the idea "Better late than never", a group of code hackers have taken it upon themselves to crack 64 year old messages from the Germans during WWII in a distributed fashion, that were unable to be deciphered. The first message is already cracked.The messages are encoded using the Enigma machine and no one has been able to decode them... up till now. You can download a client yourself and participate, much like the SETI experiment a while ago. Messages used to be cracked with this huge machine. Today, even your mobile smartphone could help, given the right client.
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