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1. presumably an old one-time pad with no extant key?

Sat Nov 24, 2012, 02:55 PM

Nov 2012

That would be tough to break if it was done properly.

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presumably an old one-time pad with no extant key? mike_c Nov 2012 #1

+ struggle4progress Nov 2012 #6

Exactly Science Geek Nov 2012 #7

Yup! Probably a one-time pad. longship Nov 2012 #3

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Send it to the people who decrypted the Zodiac Killer's coded letter alcibiades_mystery Nov 2012 #8

I thought that there was one last letter which they have had to break sakabatou Nov 2012 #9

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