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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User of the day

keltoi
Running various BOINC projects.
Team Starfire World BOINC http://tswb.org

Project total CPU time equivalent to: 1834 years, 268 days, 22 hours, 9 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

Database maintenance
February 25, 2009
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.
BOINC 6.6.0 for Mac
January 12, 2009
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/.

Short downtime
December 11, 2008
Today (11 December) around 1pm GMT+2 the server will be shut down for a short period of time (around 1~2 hours), because one of the databases has to be moved to new hard drive.
Hardware replacement
November 04, 2008
I'm going to shutdown one of the servers to replace faulty network card. The BOINC server will stay online, however the work generator will be stopped so it's possible that the server will run out of work.
5.19/5.20 Optimized app
August 10, 2008
If you're running v5.17 optimized app, please update your app_info.xml and all app files to 5.19 (Windows) or 5.20 (Linux). Old version can't handle new task templates so it can't run awgly100 workunits.
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