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The [[NSA]] Venona <ref name=NSA-Venona>{{citation
#REDIRECT [[VENONA]]
| url = http://www.nsa.gov/venona/
| author = National Security Agency
| title = VENONA}}</ref> project was a successful attack on Soviet diplomatic cipher during the [[Cold War]].
 
The cipher was a [[one-time pad]], provably perfectly secure (with limitations that are not relevant here) when correctly implemented and used. However, Soviet procedures were flawed; they sometimes re-used keys. This gave the NSA the opening they needed.

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