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WI Purple hadn't been broken so early?

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Subject: WI Purple hadn't been broken so early?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:38:35 +0000
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by: Paul Leyland - Mon, 26 Feb 2024 19:38 UTC

Friedmann's team broke the Japanese "Purple" encryption system in 1939,
with effects comparable to the Polish-British breaking of Enigma.

What if the crack hadn't occurred until, say, 1943?

Isoroku Yamamoto may well have lived longer, even though his demise was
greatly accelerated not by reading Purple but by JN-25D.

In the war of wits, he's unarmed.

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