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This episode explores the story of the (the "Japanese Super Code"), which was used by the Japanese Foreign Office for top-secret diplomatic communications leading up to and during World War II [1]. It details how a team of American cryptanalysts, led by William Friedman at the Signal Intelligence Service (SIS), managed to reconstruct the complex Japanese cipher machine without ever having seen it [1, 2]. You can also watch Cracking the Code on MagellanTV