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How hard can it be? – Part 6: Flying blind
On a fifteen-minute flight, a Luftwaffe codebook and three hypotheses.
A trilogy in four parts. Part 5: I thought breaking Enigma would be easy.
Building my own Enigma machine.
How hard can it be? – Part 4: Three machines and a question they could not answer
14 August 2026
Updated: 28 September 2026
Three frontier AI systems, one unsolvable problem and a lesson about what happens when the evidence runs out.
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.