AI cracks a 1941 Enigma message unsolved since 2005—modern crypto still safe
Dave_Maynor · x · 2026-11-10
An AI model cracked a 1941 Enigma message that had resisted solution since 2005. Ron Gula adds context: Enigma was broken 80+ years ago, and this copy likely survived only due to transcription errors. Properly generated RSA, elliptic curve and AES keys have not fallen—to AI, to quantum, or in public.
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