Cryptanalysis of the Enigma by the letters on the top row of the Enigma keyboard. So, "continuation of message sent at 2330" was represented as "FORTYWEEPYYWEEPY". "Cribs" were fundamental to the British approach to solving Enigma keys, but guessing the plaintext for a message was a highly skilled business. So in 1940 Stuart Milner-Barry set up a special "Crib Room" in Hut 8. Foremost amongst the knowledge needed for identifying cribs was the text of previous decrypts. Bletchley Park maintained detailed indexes of message preambles, of every person, of every ship, of every unit, of every weapon, of every technical term and of repeated
Cracking The Code Matters magazine commented that the album transported Petit "to the next level". Legendary UK music journalist Charles Shaar Murray agreed, deeming the album Petit's "graduation piece". Writing for The Blues, Shaar Murray notes: "[Petit] rises to the challenge that most New Blues players are guitarists first, singers second and songwriters a distant, trailing third. Previous records established his credentials as guitar hero and ace blues geek, but now he’s found his voice." "Cracking The Code" received an 8/10 star review in Classic Rock as well as being listed as one the magazine's best albums of 2013. Hi-Fi News magazine awarded