Amateur cryptographer Joachim Schueth has beaten the British World War II computer Colossus of Bletchley Park in a code-cracking challenge.
Joachim Schueth solved a German cipher in just 46 seconds, more than three hours quicker than the 60 year old PC.
He received a prize from the National Museum of Computing, which included a valve from the Colossus machine.
Mr Schueth deciphered the code using a laptop and a program he wrote specifically for the challenge.
To be clear he beat out other competitors who had themselves written their own cryptanalysis tools to crack the encrypted message rather than just Colossus as that would not really have been a fair contest at all.
