Perry Metzger writes:
John Young writes:
"U.S. Tells How It Found Soviets Sought A-Bomb: Discloses Clues That Led to Code-Breaking."
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The reports claimed the spys were using one time pads in some flawed manner, but did not explain very well what the problem was. Does anyone out there know?
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A real good book with a fair amount of details is Peter Wright's great book "Spycatcher". The clueless media concentrated on Wright's allegation that Sir Roger Hollis, head of MI5 was a Soviet mole or the "5th Man" of the Philby, Burgess, Maclean & Blunt spyring. Now Wright may have been in Jesus Angleton's psychotic "wilderness of mirrors" too long, but he did a lot of bugging & stuff w/ GCHQ & he spends a great deal of his book talking about precisely the Venona decrypts. Briefly there was some reuse of "one time pads". He gives a fair amount of detail, & I suspect this is why HRM Govt. was so displeased, the supposed "embarrassment" of the allegations against long dead Sir Roger being just a cover story & much easier for the tabloids & general public to understand. tjh This is 1/713 of PGP262i DOS Executable Zipfile UUE'd Violate the Un-Constitutional ITAR Today! Get YOUR chunk @ web site below. ------------------ PGP.ZIP Part [005/713] ------------------- M@UIXP9EW\".^Q0XL1SO8"^*_O:U-=H(P&2,1A6YHB?KP@@H2/)$+P@-<PX_( MPTGLPBHDHSW<(,<O,D$XB'2TA`HQ4D'H@R#<)[Z3*D$P80%N*8D1:Q6"T`\J M/*/<G_$-/L9&%#L)P@HD82`ZHPG4$%#L*`A7D8M#F(/>"($GRAT$8246(Q:3 ------------------------------------------------------------- for next chunk to export --> http://dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/export/