how did they prevent the Nazis figuring out that the enigma code has been broken?

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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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a) claiming other sources like spies

a) not using all the information from it, focusing on the big impact full decisions. This might mean even letting a few people die, to save more in the long term.

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