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mturmon
on Dec 17, 2016
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How is NSA breaking so much crypto? (2015)
Another factor (according to the excellent
Battle of Wits
by Budiansky) was that the Germans were overconfident that Enigma was unbreakable. Turned out their confidence in the hard computation that would need to be done to decode Enigma was wrong.
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