This is an interesting news that again shows how useful a computer can be. Using a network of computer terminals, 3 German cryptography enthusiasts have successfully cracked one of the most complicated encrypted codes used by Nazi army during World War II back in 1942.

The complex ciphers were encoded in 1942 by a new version of the German Enigma machine. Part of the reason Allied army losses in the North Atlantic throughout 1942 was the advancement in this German encryption techniques.

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German messages were encoded using the fearsome Enigma machine, which used a series of rotors, often augmented by a so-called “plugboard”, to scramble transmissions not meant for Allied eyes.

The machines used ever-changing rotor wheel combinations and electrical currents to produce unique coded messages.

Plugboards further complicated matters by swapping pairs of letters over during the encoding process, greatly increasing the numbers of possible encryptions.

Stefan Krah is the one started this tedious decrypting process mainly motivated by his basic human curiosity. He wrote a custom code-breaking program which initially attracted about 45 users to run his program on their computer for the cracking project. The project is now having around 2,500 separate computer terminals contributing.
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Nazi 64-Year-Old Encrypted Codes Cracked

The Turion X2 processors will be launched in early May 2006, The Inquirer reported. So, what’s so great about Turion64 X2, you might ask. Well, Turion64 X2 is the upcoming AMD’s dual core Turion64 mobile processor, which has two separate core in one mobile processor die.

As reported, there will be 2 groups of new Turion X2 processors :-

• 1.6GHz, 1.8GHz and 2.0GHz models (with 2x 512KB L2 caches)
• 1.6GHz low-end model (with 2x 256KB L2 caches)

I have written a short introduction to Turion processor some time back.

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Turion64 X2 Is Coming In May 06

Sony Ericsson just announced to integrate Google free blogging service – Blogger (or blogspot) into its handsets. Meanwhile, Google web search will be added in as well.

The world first few mobile phones to have the pre-loaded blogging application with Google icon are K610 UMTS phone, K800 and K790. The pre-loaded application on the phones will allow Blogger users to update their blogs, including posting photos from their Sony Ericsson phones. The collaboration between Sony Ericsson and Google makes Google web search as the standard search engine for all Sony Ericsson phones. The search is highly customized and allowing searches from within any page being browsed on the phone.

K610 in grey

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“We are seeing exponential growth in blogging, and consumers are turning more and more often to the Internet as a means of sharing information or images in personal blogs,” said a statement issued by Jan Wareby, a vice president at Sony Ericsson. “By working with Google, we’re able to offer a quick and easy way for people to blog as they discover how convenient it is as a way to share words and pictures with friends, family and beyond.”

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Sony Ericsson Brings Blogging & Google Search Into Mobile Phones