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Frode Weierud of Crypto Cellar confirmed that after Carter Leffer asked it to try the unbroken messages on the site, Astra picked the target itself, suspected a link to an already-broken message, wrote its own Enigma simulator and Bombe in Python and C++, and cracked it with the crib ROSENOW ROSENOW. The key used wheel order 253, the ciphertext had transcription errors, and there was a rare left-wheel turnover at letter 72. Weierud estimates two days of its work would take a human weeks or months.
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