[HN Gopher] An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Blac...
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       An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and
       Zodiac killings
        
       Author : davweb
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2025-12-23 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.latimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.latimes.com)
        
       | caminanteblanco wrote:
       | http://archive.today/uVf3N
        
       | adzm wrote:
       | Why is it always so difficult to find the details? What kind of
       | cipher was it? How was the key derived from a password?
        
       | Arainach wrote:
       | > "It's irrefutable,"
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       | Such absolute language is generally reserved for overconfident
       | people who have jumped to conclusions, not people with experience
       | in statistics and analysis. In particular, substitution ciphers
       | on short strings have a significant number of possibilities. This
       | theory is one, but it is VERY far from "irrefutable", even paired
       | with other circumstantial evidence.
        
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