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> he declared that the Allies could not possibly have deciphered his Enigma messages

One should always assume deciphering.

I would have used one-time pads on top of the Enigma. There weren't that many U-boots, so it should have been workable.



Their first mistake was rolling their own crypto. Never roll your own crypto.


To be fair, those days there (fortunately) wasn't really a useful cryptographic standard to use.




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