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How did cryptography change or impact the course of history in the civil war?

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Cryptography was very important in the Civil war due to the advent of the telegraph and Morse code. Since anyone could listen in on a message as it passed between two points it was imperative to either secure the lines (not always possible) or to encode the message.

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