Venona

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The NSA Venona [1] project was a successful attack on Soviet diplomatic cipher during the Cold War.

The cipher was a one-time pad, provably perfectly secure (with limitations that are not relevant here) when correctly implemented used. However, Soviet procedures were flawed; they sometimes re-used keys. This gave the NSA the opening they needed.

  1. ↑ National Security Agency, VENONA
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