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A comment on P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945). Parent comment

Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by wkat4242 on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:07PM (#36486542)
Why was there a character limit? I always thought the only limit was the slow transmission speed of morse messages.
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Re:P1030680: Unbroken Enigma message (U534, 01 May 1945) by DSMan195276 on Monday June 26, 2023 @06:29PM (#36486740)
From what I have read it was specifically to make it harder to decrypt the messages :D Longer messages are easier to analyze.
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