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by robaato 309 days ago
There's the entertaining bit in the film The Imitation Game (the breaking of Enigma code by Alan Turing) where they realised that a weakness was the daily weather report always containing the words "weatherreport" and "heil bloody hitler" (with obvious addition!) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fAsSNjedZWI or longer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkETN-xENAM

Also a more proper explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4V2bpZlqx8

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IIRC this is relatively close to what happened in real life. Enigma wasn't safe against chosen ciphertext attacks.