Mystfan comments on Cryptanalysis as Epistemology? (paging cryptonerds) - Less Wrong
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Also the British cryptographers made a practice of "gardening"; before a German expedition was to depart, they'd mine an area so that they'd have known plaintext to work with. I imagine that helped a lot too.