Presumably somebody is now going to be charged with rape - for releasing classified US army information
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That would be the CS Army. Very different.
If the secret that they lost got out - wouldn't it harm the morale of US forces from the south?
and therefore treason
Encoded with a Vigenere cipher ... cool!
Not saying it would take me less time but damn, it took the retired CIA code breaker "several weeks" to solve?
From the article, it seems as if its breaking was done A. by hand, and B. more as a hobby than anything else. It was explicitly noted that if they had bothered feeding it through a computer, it would've taken "a fraction" of the time.
For maximum fun, you cannot use tools stronger than were available to make the code, to break the code.