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The Beale Cipher: A Dissenting Opinion
James J. Gillogly, 1980. Cryptologia 4(2): 116-119.
Applies the Declaration of Independence key from cipher 2 to cipher 1 and finds long alphabetical runs such as "abcdefghiijklmmnohpp" that chance would not produce, arguing that cipher 1 was generated from the Declaration by someone who was not encoding a message. The strongest single argument for a hoax.
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Source of the 1980 statistical finding; the hoax reading rests on it.
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Gillogly, J. J. (1980). The Beale Cipher: A Dissenting Opinion. Cryptologia 4(2): 116-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-118091854979
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Gillogly, James J.. “The Beale Cipher: A Dissenting Opinion.” Cryptologia 4(2): 116-119 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-118091854979.