Reply to post: It always strikes me as strange...

Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto

msknight

It always strikes me as strange...

...that they didn't use another language other than their native, to communicate in.

While everyone is trying to find patterns of Russian words, then if the correspondence was in English, for example, that would surely have made it more difficult for the people doing the cracking?

Or is my thought pattern starting to show that it's nearing beer o'clock?

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