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that during the American Civil War, the Union regularly cracked the Confederacy s coded messages because the Confederacy relied on a limited number of key phrases for encrypting their messages, one of which was Complete Victory .

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Fun Fact: that during the American Civil War, the Union regularly cracked the Confederacy’s coded messages because the Confederacy relied on a limited number of key phrases for encrypting their messages, one of which was “Complete Victory”.

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