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To: Oatka
I am mathematically challenged but if it can be used to break a current key, could not the decoders go back to previous messages and break them also? If so, lots of new worriesd in the intelligence community.

We were doing that with the Soviets after the second world war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VENONA

50 posted on 05/10/2009 8:42:24 PM PDT by Brellium ("Thou shalt not shilly shally!" Aron Nimzowitsch)
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To: Brellium
We were doing that with the Soviets after the second world war.

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff.

52 posted on 05/11/2009 7:38:02 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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