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Dorabella unMASCed - the Dorabella Cipher is not an English or Latin Mono-Alphabetical Substitution Cipher

Viktor Wase, 2023. Cryptologia (online 20 November 2023; 49: 15-24).

Shows that solvers break English and Latin monoalphabetic ciphers as short as Dorabella, and fail on Dorabella.

MYS0CRZAKFP1TJ5 · mystery · click to copyMDorabella cipherArticledoi: 10.1080/01611194.2023.2271466Checked against the original0

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Strongest published argument against a plain substitution.

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Wase, V. (2023). Dorabella unMASCed - the Dorabella Cipher is not an English or Latin Mono-Alphabetical Substitution Cipher. Cryptologia (online 20 November 2023; 49: 15-24). https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2023.2271466
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