Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LONDON, March 15 (UPI) -- A British-based worldwide network of code-breaking enthusiasts' computers has cracked the second World War II Enigma-generated code used by the Nazis. Three unsolved messages from 1942 were unearthed by amateur historian Ralph Erskine, who submitted them to a cryptology journal in 1995 as a challenge for code-breakers. Out of that grew the M4 Project, which harnesses the processing power of thousands of volunteers' home computers, the BBC said. Advertisement The first code was cracked Feb. 20, and was confirmed as a message from the commander of a German U-boat. The second resolved code is a naval status report and confirmation of position. German enthusiast Stephan Krah wrote the M4 Project software and on the M4 Web site said efforts would now shift back to the last message, which was actually the first of the three original submissions.
