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During WW2 the boffins at Bletchley Park would arrange particular missions, such as laying mines in enemy harbours, because the knew that this would be reported back to Army/Navy headquarters using standard message templates. Knowing what you are looking for helps to reduce the work needed to decrypt.

They also intercepted enemy weather forecasts, which were encoded using a weather code book, then encrypted using Enigma machines. Using captured codebooks, this helped them crack the Navy 4-rotor Enigma, as the same forecast was transmitted to lower security establishments such as shipyards using a standard 3 rotor systeme, while the U-boats got it in 4 rotor format. The 3-rotor encryption could be broken on a daily basis, and knowing what thety were looking for in a 4 rotor message certainly helped in the breaking of that.
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