On 20 September 1940, Genevieve Grotjan, a 27-year-old statistician, discovered a pattern in several Japanese ciphered messages. The discovery provided an entry point that led to one of the greatest achievements in cryptanalysis: the breaking of Japan’s highest-level diplomatic cipher system, often referred to as PURPLE.
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