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Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say

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The Enigma code was a fiendish cipher that took Alan Turing and his team of codebreakers a herculean effort to crack.

Yet experts say cracking it would have crumbled in the face of modern computing.

By 1943 , the machines could decipher two messages every minute .

The code was credited with shortening the second world war by two years .

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