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To: proust

He misspelled a lot of words, deliberately. By the way, when you misspell a word in a code, you make it harder to decipher.


6 posted on 12/11/2020 1:24:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He misspelled a lot of words, deliberately. By the way, when you misspell a word in a code, you make it harder to decipher.

Yup. If someone deliberately misspells words, if makes the encryption more opaque as you can’t use standard word frequency checks to try and identify common words in the cypher.


12 posted on 12/11/2020 1:33:13 PM PST by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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Yes, it was his MO. I have read many books, stories and articles on this elusive serial killer.


16 posted on 12/11/2020 1:39:51 PM PST by babyfreep
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