Venona not all decrypted?

R.A. Hettinga rah at shipwright.com
Mon Oct 3 13:20:59 PDT 2005


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I just heard that the Venona intercepts haven't all been decrypted, and
that the reason for that was there "wasn't enough budget to do so".

Is that "not enough budget" to apply the one-time pads they already have,
or is that the once-and-futile exercise of "decrypting" ciphertext with no
one-time pad to go with it?

Cheers,
RAH

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