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How do I create a code like pic related? what do I need to know.
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How do I create a code like pic related? what do I need to know. I want to make it as hard as possible but I still want people to guess it. any essential texts?
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just make it impossible but include a couple things that can be deciphered to make it seem possible
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I'd like to know this as well. This seems really interesting
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The zodiac killer used a few cursory cryptography books to create his code. I'm sure with some research you could figure out which ones
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>>7691381
Imo it was way more likely the Zodiac got their cryptography know how from magazines and pulp fiction, just like nearly everything else they did.
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Use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher

Can be cracked but difficult
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigen%C3%A8re_cipher#Cryptanalysis
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>>7690820
By having autism.
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