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A comment on The Code-Breaking Women Who Unmasked Soviet Spies.

Re:The Code-Breaking Women Who Unmasked Soviet Spies by DoctorOetker on Saturday September 01, 2018 @09:55AM (#17891849)
>Into the 1970s, certain key Soviet wartime agents remained unidentified; even then, only selected portions of nearly 3,000 messages had been read. Customer agencies—the CIA, the FBI and agencies in the U.K.—wanted the messages mined as long as they might yield something, but in 1978, the NSA evaluated the likelihood of any more matches and decided to phase out the program within two years.

If it's declassified, are the raw cipher publically available (the decoded and nondecoded ones)?

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Re:The Code-Breaking Women Who Unmasked Soviet Spies by DoctorOetker on Saturday September 01, 2018 @01:47PM (#17893024)
I don't see any bulk ciphertext dump yet, but conclusions after analysis seem to be available at https://archive.org/details/thevenonafiles&tab=collection

If anyone knows if the raw ciphertexts with metadata (say date, source/"lane") are available please share! I think it would be more fun and educational to exercise on real quasi-OTP ciphertexts...

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Re:The Code-Breaking Women Who Unmasked Soviet Spies by belorn on Sunday September 02, 2018 @09:50AM (#17896983)
A common practice after the second world was that everything got burned in order to prevent war from accidentally reigniting. Would be interesting to know how much of that practice was used after the cold war.
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Re:The Code-Breaking Women Who Unmasked Soviet Spies by DoctorOetker on Sunday September 02, 2018 @11:36AM (#17897331)
it's often depicted in movies (hastily burning paperwork when the area is being invaded), but I always thought this was to destroy evidence of any war crimes.
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