Also a rather famous occurrence of a mistakenly decrypted message (nonsense padding was thought to be actual plaintext) sent by Admiral Nimitz to his suboridina

Also a rather famous occurrence of a mistakenly decrypted message (nonsense padding was thought to be actual plaintext) sent by Admiral Nimitz to his suboridinate Admiral Halsey. WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR THE WORLD WONDERS "the world wonders" was supposed to be nonsense padding to make enemy cryptanalysis harder, but was mistakenly thought to be part of the original message and passed on by Halsey's radio operator, causing Halsey to believe that Nimitz was sarcastically criticizing him and led to an angry outburst from Halsey, which in turn potentially led Halsey to delay help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_world_wonders