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Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto
2018-07-19 18:35

Moscow's agents used one-time pads, er, two times – ой! Efforts by British boffins to thwart Russian cryptographic cyphers in the 1920s and 1930s have been declassified, providing fascinating insights into an obscure part of the history of code breaking.…


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