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Had to double take at reading Robert Morriss (surely no relation..surely) > Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named
by arh68 12y ago
Had to double take at reading Robert Morriss (surely no relation..surely)
> Beale entrusted a box containing the encrypted messages to a local innkeeper named Robert Morriss
If it's just an unknown one time pad we're looking for, this is pretty damning:
> If the Declaration of Independence is used as a key for the first cipher, it yields alphabetical sequences such as abfdefghiijklmmnohpp and others
- mdda 12y agoOTOH, there's nothing to stop a separate cipher key for the first text, and the author making sure that the key words chosen (there's always a choice, since only the first letters are used) map (roughly) to an interesting sequence in the Declaration of Independence - as a gotcha.