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How hard can it be? – Part 3: The answer was somebody else's
The message was solved in 1944, solved again in 1998, and I solved it in 2026 by writing to the people who already had.
How hard can it be? – Part 2: The crib that would not stop
A fragment of known German, a machine that can never encipher a letter as itself and a Bombe simulator.
How hard can it be? – Part 1: I thought breaking Enigma would be easy
I had a modern laptop and eighty years of progress. Surely breaking one Enigma message would be easy.
Impressive is not the same as useful
On AI manuscript review tools, what they can do and what they cannot