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Why is it always so difficult to find the details? What kind of cipher was it? How was the key derived from a password?

• JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
  > Why is it always so difficult to find the details? "There’s a new podcast, 'Killer in the Code', from author Michael Connelly that details Baber’s supposed solution tying both cases to the same guy. All the publicity about this today stems from the debut of that podcast yesterday" [1]. [1] https://daringfireball.net https://daringfireball.net
• pengaru 10mo ago
  Judging from TFA none of this was determined. They (allegedly) matched the length of the encrypted name using a process of elimination from an AI-generated pool of possible names, arriving at one name that happened to match the name of Elizabeth Short's murderer, and then a bunch of other circumstantial details aligned.
  • stogot 10mo ago
    In the article it also says the key to deicpher was Elizabeth and that the solution was approved by two cryptographers at the NSA
    • pengaru 10mo ago
      Huh, apparently I didn't read the whole thing then.
• Enzime 10mo ago
  https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19p4n1aMyeYte1jC4P3GKflMgD6xuZAvV https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19p4n1aMyeYte1jC4P3G...