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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher#History
TIL that during the American Civil War, the Union regularly cracked the Confederacy’s coded messages because the Confederacy relied on a limited number of key phrases for encrypting their messages, one of which was “Complete Victory”.
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Sounds like a similar sort of thing that helped the Allies crack the Enigma code- the nazis always ended messages with Heil Hitler. Made it easier to crack the code.
That’s very interesting 🤔
I’m starting to think that in the not-so-distant future, it’ll be renamed as American Civil War I. The ideological division in this country seems to be worsening greatly as of late.
The equivalent of using Password1 for all of your online accounts today.