How did they get over the catch-22 that if they used the information that Nazis could guess it came from breaking the code but if they didn’t use the information there was no point in having it.
EDIT. I tagged this as mathematics because the movie suggests the use of mathematics, but does not explain how you use mathematics to do it (it’s a movie!). I am wondering for example if they made a slight tweak to random search patterns so that they still looked random but “coincidentally” found what we already knew was there. It would be extremely hard to detect the difference between a genuinely random pattern and then almost genuinely random pattern.
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Part of the plot of the novel “[Cryptonomicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon)” is about a special unit set up to specifically perform operations that give alternative explanations for successes achieved from Enigma intelligence.
Can’t say that’s what the Allies did, but it certainly makes sense.
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