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RE: US stole Codebreaking Limelight from Britain in WWII?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kossmann, Bill)
Wed Sep 6 11:27:14 2000
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From: "Kossmann, Bill" <BKossmann@dthr.ab.ca>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 09:01:06 -0600
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Peter Wayner wrote:
According to the Daily Telegraph, the US took most of the credit for
breaking Japanese codes during WWII.
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If I recall correctly, the Americans were successful in breaking the
Japanese diplomatic cipher 'Purple'. This gave them some indication that
something was up in late 1941, however, they were still caught with their
RADAR down in early December.
Regards,
Bill
(not an American ;-)
