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Using Teamwork to Crack the Enigma Code [4min]

A global team of computer users has cracked one of the remaining World War II messages encoded by the Nazi Enigma machine. Noah Adams talks to Ira Flatow, host of NPR's "Talk of the Nation Science Friday," about how the code was broken -- and a serious risk to users of the program used to crack the encryption.
Read entire article at NPR "Day to Day"