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reorder9695today at 7:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Enigma wasn't one time pad based (although these were used a lot during the war), enigma does have known weaknesses such as letters never being decrypted to itself. Enigma was based off daily settings (rotor positions, plugboard settings etc), which could be mostly recovered by the end of the war, unlike actual one time pads which are only crackable by bad key hygiene/brute force.


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fpgaminertoday at 10:06 PM

You cannot crack OTP, even by brute force.