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A Basic Probe of the Beale Cipher as a Bamboozlement
Louis Kruh, 1982. Cryptologia 6(4): 378-382.
Lists the internal problems of the pamphlet's story (the ordering of the ciphers, the improbable logistics, the expectation that cipher 2 would be solved first) and compares the prose of the narrator and of "Beale".
What it's used for here
The main internal-consistency case against the story.
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Kruh, L. (1982). A Basic Probe of the Beale Cipher as a Bamboozlement. Cryptologia 6(4): 378-382. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-118291857190
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Kruh, Louis. “A Basic Probe of the Beale Cipher as a Bamboozlement.” Cryptologia 6(4): 378-382 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-118291857190.