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I think the mistakes could have been intentional traps, to make code breaking more difficult and waste more resources. Once you solved it you can understand the

I think the mistakes could have been intentional traps, to make code breaking more difficult and waste more resources. Once you solved it you can understand the message (good propaganda), but using misspelled words could throw off some attempts and generate "false negative" results when beginning to solve it, making detectives believe they are on the wrong tracks. Given he fooled everyone for 40+ years I find it hard to believe he would overlook details, especially when it's about his main publicity tool.

saberdancer 6y ago
In his public (non encrypted) letters he has some spelling mistakes. swiches instead of switches, cid instead of kid, figgure instead of figure, cerous instead of curious There are more. Even if it was intentional, I am not sure that spelling mistakes would make 60s/70s decryption attempts any worse. They did not work by brute force and it's unlikely he predicted someone will use a supercomputer to crack his code decades later.