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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by dgacmu on Monday June 26, 2023 @08:10PM (#36487519)
It's only 2^69, or 512 exa-decryptions. A 4090 does 44 tera ops/sec (roughly 2^45), so we're left with 2^24 × ops per decode. If it takes 1000 ops to check a key, that's 2^34, or 16 billion seconds. About 500 years.

Give or take a few centuries, it's very far from the age of the universe.

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