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Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto

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Re: Find it difficult to believe

GCHQ can brute force crack the code by running through every book in their digital library

Not every book is digitised, and different printings of books can vary enough to make them effectively unique as cipher pads. I do agree though that's it's more tricky than it used to be, but if Alice and Bob are sufficiently cryptic in how they define which page/paragraph/word/letter then they could defy purely automated analysis.

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