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... cipher ; in its perusal by a third party , no reference is had to it at all . The lock of the secret is picked . In the different methods of cryptography specified above , it will be observed that there is a gradually in- creasing ...
... cipher ; in its perusal by a third party , no reference is had to it at all . The lock of the secret is picked . In the different methods of cryptography specified above , it will be observed that there is a gradually in- creasing ...
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... cipher which human ingenuity could not resolve " but then we do not propose , just now , to make ourselves indi- vidually the test of human ingenuity " in general . We do not propose to solve all ciphers . Whether we can or cannot do ...
... cipher which human ingenuity could not resolve " but then we do not propose , just now , to make ourselves indi- vidually the test of human ingenuity " in general . We do not propose to solve all ciphers . Whether we can or cannot do ...
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... cipher , ( by which I mean with each letter uniformly represented by a single distinct character , ) would ap- pear to be an impenetrable mystery ; and they would doubtless imagine that the more complicated the method of constructing ...
... cipher , ( by which I mean with each letter uniformly represented by a single distinct character , ) would ap- pear to be an impenetrable mystery ; and they would doubtless imagine that the more complicated the method of constructing ...
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Maelzels ChessPlayer | 6 |
Preface and Introduction to the Conchologists | 95 |
The Philosophy of Furniture | 101 |
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