CRYPTOGRAMS FROM THE CRYPT

James J. Gillogly, Larry Harnisch · Cryptologia · 1996

A Cambridge don and psychic researcher left two encrypted messages to test whether the dead can communicate with the living. The authors describe successful cryptanalysis of one of these messages, a double Playfair cipher with overlapped pairs. In summary: Computerized medium channels dead spirit to recover cryptographic keys.

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