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The Top 50 unsolved encrypted messages: 40. The Beale cryptograms
Klaus Schmeh, 2017. Klausis Krypto Kolumne (scienceblogs.de).
A cryptography writer's summary of the hoax case: Gillogly's strings, the Morriss hotel date, Kruh's points on cipher numbering, and the strength of the book-cipher method for an 1820s frontiersman.
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A clear secondary summary; used for the Morriss 1823 point and the cipher-strength argument.
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Schmeh, K. (2017). The Top 50 unsolved encrypted messages: 40. The Beale cryptograms. Klausis Krypto Kolumne (scienceblogs.de). https://scienceblogs.de/klausis-krypto-kolumne/2017/03/20/the-top-50-unsolved-encrypted-messages-40-the-beale-cryptograms/?all=1
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